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The Right Questions Can Reveal the Right Problems

Harmonious Workplaces

In the dynamic fields of organizational development (OD) and change management (OCM), a consultant’s ability to ask the right questions plays as crucial a role as having the right answers. Consulting capabilities for organizational change. Management Consulting Journal, 1( 1). Frameworks do help to guide the process.

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Sometimes Doing the Right Thing Involves Risk

Harmonious Workplaces

I attended a meeting led by the VP of construction for a company for which I was the VP of marketing. I joined the meeting virtually from another part of the building via Microsoft Teams. After the meeting, he called me back into the conference room. The president of the company sat beside the VP in the same room.

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5 Typical Phases of Organizational Change that Must Be Navigated

LSA Global

Navigating the Typical Phases of Organizational Change Organizational leaders face a daunting task: keeping up with or staying ahead of the relentless pressure to change. Expectations for the Typical Phases of Change First, employees know that most corporate change initiatives are doomed to fail.

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How To Sustain Change: Keeping The Momentum Going After The Training Ends

Nash Consulting

From Idea to Action: Distill your vision for change into a succinct, powerful statement. Share this at every opportunity—make it a staple in your emails, meetings, and informal chats. From Idea to Action: Identify key behaviors that exemplify the change. Create thematic groups around key areas of change.

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How Cloud Computing Is Changing Management

Harvard Business

That makes it imperative to start thinking about how management will be changed by the most impactful information technology of our time: cloud computing. What does it allow us to do differently, and how will that change the way we do things in the future?

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What Lifecycle or Agile Approach Fits Your Context? Part 1, Serial Lifecycles

Johanna Rothman

Sometimes, they put the project on the parking lot, because maybe the laws of physics would change? Computers kept getting cheaper and more capable, so, in a sense, the laws of physics did change. Managers Had Many Cancellation Options. My managers didn't just cancel projects at the end of the requirements phase.

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Why Are Startup Founders So Bad at Changing Their Own Companies?

Harvard Business

Company founders would seem to be a natural fit for change management programs. Unfortunately, when founders attempt to apply these skills to their own organizations, they usually aren’t as successful: It seems the industry disrupter’s virtues are the organizational change manager’s vices.

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