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Post in 48 words Business school academics frequently and repeatedly claim that organizational change tends to fail. Addressing these 'failures' informs university leadership and management courses for students and consultancy for organizations. Perversely I am now referenced as the missing change tends to fail 'evidence', this Notebook reflects my increasingly paranoid scream!!! In this third …
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Organizational change does not tend to fail and 70% style statistics are sloppy generalizations.
This lockdown playlist has featured my highly opinionated reviews of organizational change literature. If nothing else, I have enjoyed the distraction of this creative process. Critical thinking primarily informs my review choices rather than my reviews. I concentrate on the literature that I appreciate and I celebrate that literature, rather than objectively reviewing it. There …
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Tom Bourner is an ex university colleague and a very good friend of mine. In a manner similar to many academics he felt the strong desire to speak out about what is happening with regards to the government handling of Covid-19. What follows is Tom's guest post on the government response to Covid-19. British government’s …
The plan in the summer of 2019 was a simple one. After 32 years working at Brighton Business School, in later years as a Reader in Organizational Change, I would take a year out. My thinking was that I would rest my body, mind and soul and then in the summer of 2020 take on …
I recently enjoyed talking with Jane and James as part of their World of Work podcast series. It was good to take a break from gardening and my joy of composting and engage with another of my passions - organizational change. We talked about the scope of organizational change, my attraction to the field and …
I was delighted to read this appreciative review of my latest textbook and grateful to Dr David Wilkinson for taking the time to write it. In academic circles, despite the money students and university libraries invest in such texts, textbook authoring is surprisingly unfashionable. David fairly explains why such academic scepticism about textbooks exists, thankfully …
