I had my ticket booked for this Brighton Festival event last year and then everything seemed to stop. Thankfully, my voucher enabled me to obtain a ticket for the rescheduled concert. I felt some apprehension going to this concert, my first since last year. It wasn’t anxiety around safety concerns, more around navigating regulations of …
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Failing to acknowledge the origins of this debate.Biased/judgmental language frames thinking.Stereotyping employees as villains and managers/leaders as heroes.Neglecting relationships between readiness and resistance to change.Underestimating resistance as an organizational change resource. Failing to acknowledge the origins of this debate. The best practice is to go back to the origins of a debate, to understand what …
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A short reflection on the passage of time prompted by revisiting a walk and a memorial seat from three decades ago
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 …
Woodland Decay 