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E Qwè?! – My Quest for Relevance ( #smc2010 congress )
There is no point in being relevant when you don’t have the permission to access the community you want to address. Relevance is a matter of co-creation, and this requires permission first.
Raising the Bar for Our Profession
For an organizational change practitioner, lacking safety shoes is symptomatic for not being in touch with the reality of things.
Love & Work (Part 6) – Growing Into a Customer
The sensation of becoming excited about details and stuff the customer cares about. Happiness is the nudge that transforms a job into a calling. Whenever I pour my commitments as a consultant into the same bucket of commitments as the customer, there is no stopping me.
Change & Chocolate
Is Charlie and the Chocolate Factory just another adventurous book written for children or could there be a hidden lesson for Organizational Change Practitioners? In this article Cool Friend Filip Michiels shares his insights on Charlie’s adventures and tells us how he applied them as CIO of an HR services provider.
Free e-book: 20 Shortcuts on Organizational Change
If you would ask me to summarize our field of expertise in 20 points, this e-book would be my answer. It contains my personal view on the basics of Organizational Change Management.
Consulting 2.0
What would our sector look like if we gave our value proposition a little twist? What would the results be like? The difference a subscription makes over a contract … “When you change the way you look at things, the things you look at change”
What about Chris Argyris?
A few weeks ago at work Danny pointed out that after more than two years of posting articles on this blog I have never mentioned Chris Argyris. Well … what can I say? Shame on me!
Smart Consultants? (Part 2)
Another research on the critical factors that determine our performance. Although not as scientifically significant as the research of professor Gardner that I mentioned last week; Organizational Change Practitioner Jim Markowsky decided to ask his colleagues how they would define success.
Smart Consultants?
In a recent working paper of Harvard Business School, Heidi Gardner suggests that staffing your project with high level performers is necessary but not sufficient to get the job done.
Pareto would have been a good project manager
If things seem under control, you’re just not going fast enough. – Mario Andretti Vilfredo Pareto is the father of the Pareto Principle, also known as the 80/20 rule. Pareto noticed that 80% of Italy’s wealth was owned by 20% of the population. He then carried out surveys on a variety of other countries and [...]
