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The “Why” guy
Anthony Robbins – the legendary coach – in action at the TED conference. We see how he condenses his life’s work into 20 minutes in very compelling way.
Organizational Change Management Portfolio is McKinsey-proof
The organizational Change Portfolio stands the test of McKinsey. That’s what I found out as I was scanning the latest articles on organizational change management. Some time ago introduced the organizational change portfolio in the article “Wellness My Ass“. Now, looking at the results of the latest McKinsey survey (*), I feel less insecure and […]
“Wellness”… My Ass!
Last week I was a few minutes early on the steering committee of a huge SAP implementation. As we were joking around we came to the subject of ‘change management’. One person mentioned that some consulting companies abbreviate it as ‘CMS’, which alternatively translates as “Chicks Making Slides”. I had no evidence to prove him wrong. So […]
Level 1: Attention please!
Why so-called Smiley-sheets are important Donald Kirkpatrick first published his ideas on training evaluation in 1959. His four-level model is now considered an industry standard across the HR and training communities. It was later redefined and updated in his 1998 book ‘Evaluating Training Programs: The Four Levels’. According to Kirkpatrick, each of these evaluation levels […]
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.
Take a Break
No regular article for week 27 because I allowed myself a small break. I was out on a travel in Piedmont and had the opportunity to visit some magnificent wine cellars and meet some exceptional winemakers. Without any doubt I will be blogging about what we can learn from their passion in the domain of […]
How to Eat the Elephant of Organizational Change?
There is always a moment when the work ahead seems so massive that you don’t know where and how to start. Funny enough this feeling always overwhelms me at exactly at the same moment: once I decided for myself what will (and will not) change and how this will impact the organization. Those moments are […]
Managing Moments of Truth
Another Must-Know Insight from Marketing Time and again I have underscored that organizational change management experts can learn heaps from the marketing department next door. If only we are willing enough to discover the parallels between a marketer and his customer segments one the one hand and an organizational change program manager and his stakeholders […]
Why Marketeers outperform Organizational Change Experts (PART II)
I always wonder why a glossary is mostly the last part of a document – it just makes no sense. So, let’s not do that and start with the glossary of this very article…
