“Culture is an emergent property of the many practices that happen every day. Change the practices and a new culture will emerge.” – Harold Jarche I always thought Harold nailed it with this quote, showing equally how obvious yet how difficult organizational culture change can be. But where, when and how does change start? Is it
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As I launched my campaign to yet again run a 1/2 marathon and begin a training regiment that will involve early morning runs in the heart of winter, my wife encouraged me to join Method 360, an exercise class she’s been attending several times a week to strengthen her core and improve he overall fitness. She
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After I gave a local ASTD Chapter presentation I was asked by some attendees if I knew “where’s all this going?” Where’s what going? I responded. “All this change, you know, due to all the technology and connectedness you speak of.” I expressed that traditional “systems” will continue to get disrupted. But I thought that
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“Hey! What are you doing?!” That was my reaction after seeing my kids and their cousins poking at a spider web. The children, all under age 8, were intrigued by a very large and fierce looking spider on a web among flower garden daisies. The gut reaction by one of the kids on this oddly
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Businesses seek markets. Without these opportunities no service or product matters no matter how effective or unique. I feel that today employees ultimately control access to these markets and this is no more true than in working in government contracts. In my space a major barrier to opportunity can be Organizational Conflict of Interest (OCI) and in
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