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Cracking the Code of Indifference…

… and Coming to Better Grips with Resistance For a few weeks now I am fascinated by a discussion on indifference on Tom Peters’ blog. It brought to my attention that there is more than ‘good old resistance’ to organizational change. The longer I thought about it the more I realized that the number one […]

Learning and Resistance

How Driving Lessons and Organizational Change are Related

Project Cocooning

A Remarkable Phenomenon The fact that a program has its own objective(s), budget, organization,resources, and management is not a reason it should exist as a island within the organization, having no contact with the rest of the organization. A remarkable phenomenon is that many teams isolate themselves in their own cocoons, having little contact as […]

Do I Need to Paint a Picture?

 

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 […]

Secrets of Success in 8 Words, 3 Minutes

Why do people succeed? Because they’re smart? Or lucky? How about: Neither.

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…

How do you Sustain Momentum as a Team Leader?

How do you sustain momentum as a team leader in practice? This is the exact question that I launched a few weeks ago on LinkedIn Q&A. What I received was excellent advice from hands-on people all over the world.

Quantum Theory and Change Management

The Essence of Organizational Change Management is based on … Quantum Theory

The Handy Guide to the Gurus of Management

The Best Things in Life are Free, Including Management Literature!