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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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Why People Lose Motivation — and What Managers Can Do to Help

Harvard Business

Organizational Development Book. Positive emotions are important in their own right, of course. Firms are more agile when they encourage employees to think up new approaches and try them out, and then get feedback about how the environment responded to their ideas. We feel more alive. Adapted from. Alive at Work.

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Why Leadership Development Isn’t Developing Leaders

Harvard Business

In their HBR article, “ Why Leadership Training Fails – and What to Do About It, ” Michael Beer, Magnus Finnström, and Derek Schrader talk cogently about the need to attend to the organizational system as a vehicle for change before companies simply send their leaders on training programs to think and behave differently.