‘No, not that one!’ my four-year-old shouts from his bed while I’m getting his clothes out for the day. We need to be in the car in 28 minutes. Not a lot of time to get him up, cleaned, dressed and fed. On the inside I’m about to explode. On the outside I’m showing my best impression of understanding-mummy-who-isn’t-getting-desperate. So, I ask him in a sturdy voice: “Okay, sweetie, not the red jumper, and not the […]
About Wendy Nieuwland-Hill
Making use of the power of self-recovery in organisational change
Four ingredients to allow change to happen from within. For each problem people face when it comes to organisational change, there are thousands of books, websites and models around, offering the ideal solution for them. Management consultants and change managers are like pharmaceutical companies, spotting chances to offer a newer, even better medicine to attack […]
Leading in Unpredictability, Complexity and Constant Change – How Taleb’s work on ‘Antifragility’ can help your leadership
Recently we’ve written quite a few blogs, both in English and in Dutch, about the concept of Antifragility. A concept introduced to us by people we’ve come to call our ‘mentors’ in a way: Penny Tompkins and James Lawley – founders of Clean Language & Symbolic Modelling. All four of us have been exploring Antifragility […]
Change 3.0: The Real Change Devil’s in the Detail – why ‘managing’ change isn’t enough
Do you know that feeling, that the change you’re working on isn’t really all that hard -or at least it shouldn’t be-, only to find that when the main things are sorted, the little things that go with it take up an incredible amount of time, effort and let’s be honest, fuss? We experienced this […]
Intermittent changing – how to use the capability for self-recovery in change processes
‘I fought in the reorganisation of ’93’, the comic above Cecile’s desk says. Her colleague Yury looks at it with a wry smile on his face, while he complains about the new CRM-system that’s being introduced now. ‘It’s not even the system itself, it’s just that we haven’t even properly merged the departments. And we’re […]