– habits and liminality in times of corona Tuesday morning, on the agenda today: Session about lessons learned from the employee engagement survey Job interviews with applicants for the vacancy for business analyst Official visit to partner-organisation Right… strike that all. At least in the way you used to do them. And this is just […]
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Why do your people stress out over every little change (and blame you of being overly optimistic)?
‘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. […]
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 […]
The Anorexic Organisation – how you can also become too Lean.
Somewhere behind my back I hear soft whispering: ‘Is she anorexic…? ’‘Goodness, no!’, my all-in-one-buddy (‘study together, party together’) replies. ‘This is just her build’. I was about 20 and I weighed just under 106 pounds (48 kilos). That’s less than your average 14-year-old. Even though I ate like a horse. On a good day […]
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 […]