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Change Readiness?—?Essential but Oft-Omitted

Harmonious Workplaces

During the month of October, I had the pleasure of learning Organizational Development (OD) and Change Leadership from The Drucker School of Management at Claremont Graduate University. I found this experience not only enlightening and a delight but also pragmatic and extremely helpful in the way I think about organizational change.

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Sometimes Doing the Right Thing Involves Risk

Harmonious Workplaces

Leaders striving for a better workplace may suffer consequences In a recent post on LinkedIn from the Business & Management Consultants open group, a contributor posted, “A manager who challenges the boss and stands up for their team, despite risking their own career, is a true leader.” Click the link below to try it out.

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Mental & Physical Health Support During a Career Crisis

Harmonious Workplaces

Among the decisions I needed to make which could have profound effects on my career and my family, I found myself torn between what I had prepared to do since I reentered graduate school — management consulting in organizational development and change management — and what I had done as a consultant and executive, MarCom (marketing communications).

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Happy (Disruptive) New Year!

Makarios Consulting

In the normal course of business, you need to respond to changes in technology, the marketplace, the economy, and more. But 2020 was not a normal year … and 2021 is not going to be normal, either. Change is always a challenge. Understandably, people are very tense about the change and the disruption that comes with it.

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Happy (Disruptive) New Year!

Makarios Consulting

In the normal course of business, you need to respond to changes in technology, the marketplace, the economy, and more. But 2020 was not a normal year … and 2021 is not going to be normal, either. Change is always a challenge. Understandably, people are very tense about the change and the disruption that comes with it.

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We May Not Have a Clear Path, But We Each Have One

Harmonious Workplaces

This morning, I attended a Momentum session of the Society for Evidence-Based Organizational Consulting (SEBOC). I gained my first consulting client, a small mental health counseling service. In 2009, the recession from 2008 forced me to pivot, sell the business, and reenter consulting full-time.

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Becoming a Data-Driven Organization: What You Need to Know

Epicflow

However, according to the survey by NewVantage Partners [1] conducted in 2021, only 24% of companies have managed to develop into data-driven ones. McKinsey consultancy suggests that the data-driven enterprise of 2025 will be characterized by certain processes [2]. Big Data and AI Executive Survey 2021. References .

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