Archives
Power to the Pilot
In every project there is an extreme retrofit phenomenon that can only be seen when one participates in all stages of a project. I label it as ‘power of the pilot’.
Bringing It All Together
Describing an ‘aha’ moment that took me about five years. Warning: it’s pretty dense…
Change and Benefits Realization
Here is a difficult topic that we often avoid to deal with as change managers: the difference between installation and realization.
Diagnostic Interventions
We need to recognize that no matter how neutral and innocent the questions may be, they will influence the thinking of the people in the organization
The World Belongs to the Tweakers, Not the Inventors
When Steve Jobs told us to ‘Stay hungry, stay foolish’, did he mention to be late and steal from time to time?
Domino Before You Bingo
There are five domino blocks that need to fall over before you can kick-off a large-scale organizational change program. What’s more: there is a specific order and distance that works best.
Connecting Some Dots
Social Architecture is an upgrade for Change Management as we know it. Does this mean that Change Management is bugged? Well… sort of…
Gamers Will Save Our Economy (Part 2)
The greatest challenge for leaders of the next decade is to design games that matter. And the best way for our children to prepare for the future is to spend more time playing bigger and better games.
Love & Work (Part 5) – What Motivates Us?
From the previous generations there is no evidence that building more autonomy and purpose into our work environments may lead to happier and more productive people. Luckily times are changing and leaders have to get out of the way for their organizations to survive in the knowledge economy.
Three is the Magic Number
“All good things come in threes” – that is my way of saying that I can not cope with more things at the same time. So I tend to reduce reality to a maximum of three dimensions.
