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 […]
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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 […]
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 […]
The curse of comfort – and how this completely blocks change
‘Hello, Bob? I seem to be having a problem. The shower won’t go cold. Bob laughs: ‘It doesn’t get warm, you mean?!’ ‘No, I really mean not cold.’ Bob, the landlord of our cottage in Wiltshire, can’t think of how to reply for a bit. For about three years now, I’ve started my days with […]