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Shut up!! (The Best Management Advice Ever)
This is one of those articles which is as much meant for myself as it could be helpful to you – dear reader.
Attention – The Forgotten Resource
Management is not a science like mathematics or quantum physics, but sometimes the truth comes to the forefront like laws of nature.
Always Remember Rule Number 6!
The following story is quoted from Ben and Rosamund Zander’s book ‘The Art of Possibility: Transforming Professional and Personal Life’
Some Mails are Better Never Sent
I tend to believe that the best consulting work is done with the heart breaking or overflowing. Sometimes people tell me not to get so emotionally involved and to adopt a rational outsider perspective.
The Duck
Always remember: a duck is a duck and a fish is a fish. Fail to see the difference as a consultant and down you go. Sometimes it seems like a farm or a pond captures more of the essence of our profession than a business school. In an earlier post about consulting (Open letter to […]
FYI: slides, slides, slides!
I have added some more slides lately to the ‘Luc’s Slides’ section. They come in pdf format, which makes it easier to grab the speaker notes that I attached to each slide. The following slideshows are available: 1. Change Management Cooking Class (46 slides)A ten step introduction into organizational change management from a project perspective. […]
Suspect Yourself First
I just can’t get a hold of that thing called ‘resistance’. This is an attempt to map how I get hooked by energy draining conflicts, oppositions and being right.
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 […]
The Giant Misunderstanding about Resistance
Focus on Indifference – NOT Resistance! Resistance is the emotion that occurs when our expectations of ‘the way things are’ are interrupted. Two words are important in this definition: – Emotion: the essence of resistance is that it creates an emotion. That means: not logical, not rational and most of all: not predictable. – Expectation: […]
Redefining ‘Responsibility’
Three important books are granting us a new perspective on what it means to be responsible. What’s in it for us? A better compass!
