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Browsing Archive: October, 2009

Change management stormtroopers and system theory

Posted by Toby Elwin on Wednesday, October 28, 2009, In : Organization Behavior 

When did systems theory get hijacked by process engineers and change management stormtroopers?

When did we allow our organizations to be built and led by analytical, causal, deductive, drones and an over-adherence of frameworks to analyze past events? 
Frameworks and theories that rely on past events ignore all opportunity for organizations to interact in an interdependent cogenerative way:   systems theory.
 
Systems theory and systems thinking relies on interface, feedback, organizational goa...
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12 tips to bridge the generation gap

Posted by Michele Simos on Thursday, October 22, 2009, In : Talent Management 

The intergenerational divide, a catch phrase that simply shouts separation. The truth is that Baby Boomers actually have quite a bit in common with Gen X’ers or Echo Boomers, particularly because they gave birth to them and Gen Y probably knew them as siblings. The Veterans or Traditionalists may be the one group that is left out of the mix. However, there is a simple solution to getting all of the generations on the same page.

I gave a workshop the other day to a bunch of corporate professi...


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Change management, project management, and the intervention

Posted by Toby Elwin on Thursday, October 15, 2009, In : Organization Behavior 

Change Management is the Illness


Overwhelming, organizations rely on process analysis to identify opportunity for savings.  Process analysis is most commonly identified as change management.

Change Management:  Analyze and diagnose business and operations processes with a focus on the greatest areas of improvement in cost, schedule, and quality.

Very few enjoy having themselves and their work process diagnosed for inefficiency.  Change management, or its red-headed step child name:  business pro...
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Change: this time let's try something new

Posted by Toby Elwin on Monday, October 5, 2009, In : Talent Management 

In today's Boston Sunday Globe Ideas section, under the Uncommon Knowledge, Surprising insights from the Social Sciences, by Kevin Lewis, I read the following:

A Time to Try Something New*
Whenever you've experienced major changes in life, have you sought comfort in familiar things?  If you're like most people, your answer is yes. However, new research suggests that the real answer is probably no. 

When Americans were offered a choice between American potato chips and British potato cris...

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