CHANGE, CONSCIOUSNESS AND TRANSFORMATION
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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It is odd but when I go down to the woods change and transformation makes most sense. I love how the old trees and old leaves give way to new trees and new leaves, a waltz in which old growth contributes to new growth. In the spring of 2020 I will witness that surge of …
My appreciation of Breaking Convention 2019 psychedelic consciousness conference themed around five personal highlights of a fascinating three days.
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.
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.
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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Withdrawn from the University of North London Library A wonderfully weird book I only managed to read half of this book, or did I? In the body of the book, the top half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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