My appreciation of Breaking Convention 2019 psychedelic consciousness conference themed around five personal highlights of a fascinating three days.
Q and A introducing the Notebook Series
An imagined Q & A introduces a new direct published Notebook Series. The post seeks to convey the rationale for the new Notebook Series, the likes and dislikes of direct publishing and hopes for the future.
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.
I am not dreaming of an evidence-based Christmas
Blog in 62 words My final post of the year is on a festive note, in which I have a gentle (respectful) dig at colleagues who see evidence-based management (EBM) as the future for managing and leading organizational change. We need evidence, but we need to remember that managing and leading change always involves moving …
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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Withdrawn from the University of North London Library A wonderfully weird book I only managed to read half of this book, or did I? In the body of the book, the top half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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The NHS at 70: An organizational change orientated reflection
As we celebrate 70 years of the NHS I reflect upon a 2014 paper on change in the NHS which is due to be revised.
Book Review – Fashion and Utopia in Management Thinking (René ten Bos, 2000)
Withdrawn from Imperial College London I really enjoyed reading this book, I was unfamiliar with the writings of Bos and suspect I must have been following up a reference. I have been around long enough to have experienced the concept of management fashion becoming very fashionable and influential and then becoming unfashionable and less influential. …
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