‘Luuk is missing. He went outside to play with Jesse but we can’t find him anywhere’. With every word, the panic level in my husband’s voice rises. Our nine-year-old went to play football with a friend on the playground. But the playground is deserted. They’re not in any of the streets around our house either. […]
About Wendy Nieuwland-Hill
Why you’d better think twice about hiring us to make a change
Four demands we have for you as a client ‘This is so what we need! We want the change to happen as naturally as possible, exactly like that.’ Marc can barely contain his enthusiasm in our first meeting. He is so frustrated with the change process they’re in, and it’s just getting worse each day. […]
How do you break through barriers to change – even with Chris from Commerce, who is against by default?
‘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 […]
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 […]