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
Natural Snow Buildings: An Appreciation
A fan based appreciation of the wonderful duo Natural Snow Buildings and why I have enjoyed their music.
Eliza and Martin Carthy: East (Brighton Dome/Brighton Festival) 29.05.21
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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Overcoming resistance to change – Five common misunderstandings
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 place to rest on Iford Hill
A short reflection on the passage of time prompted by revisiting a walk and a memorial seat from three decades ago
Notebook No.3 – Did I really claim that organizational change tends to fail?
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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Do 70 per cent of all organizational changes really fail?
Organizational change does not tend to fail and 70% style statistics are sloppy generalizations.
Woodland decay 