NATURE, ORGANIZATIONAL CHANGE and TRANSFORMATION
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 …
Continue reading "I am not dreaming of an evidence-based Christmas"
Withdrawn from the University of North London Library A wonderfully weird book I only managed to read half of this book, or did I? In the body of the book, the top half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 …
Continue reading "Book Review – Pandemonium: Towards a Retro Organization Theory (Burrell, 1997)"
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.
Withdrawn from Imperial College London I really enjoyed reading this book, I was unfamiliar with the writings of Bos and suspect I must have been following up a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. …
Continue reading "Book Review – Fashion and Utopia in Management Thinking (René ten Bos, 2000)"
It's Christmas Eve and another year is about to conclude. It was only the domain name renewal payment which brought me back to this site. I have never promoted it and I have enjoyed the anonymity of sharing thoughts with the whole world, yet not sharing them. I now feel I would like to use …
On Wednesday I enjoyed a rare evening excursion to see the new Leveller's film 'A Curious Life'. It was screened at the Duke of York's Cinema with the band performing a live set after the screening. I arrived in Brighton in 1987 and The Levellers as a band started in 1988. In the early years, …
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The Orb are celebrating their twenty fifth anniversary with a tour and new compilation History of the Future. I remember hearing them on John Peel as a youngster. He didn't play their first single, but when they retitled it A huge evergrowing pulsating brain that rules from the centre of the ultraworld, he was sold. …
Continue reading "The Orb live @ The Haunt Brighton (10/10/13)"
