This post focuses on how evaluating change and change agency debates lost their way. Three frames for thinking about these debates are introduced and differentiated.
How Studying Organizational Change Lost Its Way
Do 70 per cent of all organizational changes really fail?
Organizational change does not tend to fail and 70% style statistics are sloppy generalizations.
Organizational Change Review Desk YouTube Playlist (updated 06/01/21)
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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How they framed organizational change failure (Notebook No.1)
We need to question the persuasive narrative that organizational change tends to fail. This post introduces Notebook No.1 and its chapter content questioning currently favoured change failure framing.
Book Review – Pandemonium: Towards a Retro Organization Theory (Burrell, 1997)
Withdrawn from the University of North London Library A wonderfully weird book I only managed to read half of this book, or did I? In the body of the book, the top half of each book page goes forward in the normal linear manner, whilst the bottom half of each page goes backward, with arrows …
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