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Rituals and Habits
Today I declare the birth of a new discipline: Attention Management. For an organizational change practitioner attention management may be more important than the management of time, manpower and money. It’s about shifting the attention to the stuff we take for granted, i.e.: the rituals and habits that protect people’s comfort zones.
Web 2.0 includes Invisible Hand
Over the past week I experienced that the good old brainstorming techniques that are derived from de Bono’s Six Thinking Hats don’t need a nudge in the Web 2.0 age.
The Chameleon Law
In the 1944 unfinished novel Mount Analogue, René Daumal describes the travel of a company of eight, who set sail in the yacht Impossible to search for Mount Analogue, a solid, a geographical place that “cannot not exist.”
Return-on-Training? Wrong Question!
Last week the manager of a plant involved in a major organizational change project claimed that the return-on-training of his classroom training courses was disappointingly low.
Web 2.0 is a Major Organizational Change Accelerator
Yes that’s right. And if you don’t know what Web 2.0 (*) means this is your wake-up call. Last week McKinsey Quarterly published its global survey results on the use of Web 2.0 tools and technologies. Four important observations come to the surface and all four of them are extremely important in the face of […]
Another NO-vote for Culture Surveys
In an earlier post I have upset some HR managers who are spending fortunes on culture audits and climate indexes. First of all I underscored these initiatives either scare the hell out of people, confuse them, or bore them to death. In his 1994 book ‘The Unwritten Rules of the Game’, Peter Scott-Morgan gives us […]
Making Culture is No Rocket Science
In this article I want to pick up the broken pieces that resulted from my organizational culture rant of an earlier post. I stated that measuring culture is the wrong pot to piss in.
Stop it – seriously – STOP IT!
Every now and then I meet HR managers who are keen on measuring culture and who claim to be working on the essential layer of their organization, the source-code so to speak.
Space Technology and a Horse’s Ass
An illustration on how the past shapes the future.Found long time ago while surfing on the internet…enjoy…The U.S. standard railroad gauge (width between the two rails) is 4 feet, 8.5 inches. That’s an exceedingly odd number. Why was that gauge used? Because that’s the way they built them in England, and the U.S. railroads were […]
