Here are the highlights from the First Annual Signature Development Organizational Development Roundtable discussion on Managing Organizational Change. Below you will find the major questions clients asked during the discussion as well as some of the best practices CHENEGA, U.S. Department of Energy and other client organizations are implementing to manage organizational change. Challenges: CreatingRead… Read more »
Change. It’s unsettling and exciting. It’s evolutionary and inevitable. It’s widely initiated and frequently resisted. Alvin Toffler, in his 1970 book Future Shock, says we can only take so much change before we hit overload and shut down mentally to additional change – like a sponge reaching its saturation point. The pace of change hasRead… Read more »
This year’s collection of Ah-Ha moments in no particular order. Doing Leads to Understanding – I designed the software architecture for a project and saw clearly how the pieces related to each other. I made changes to enhance its functionality from this structural knowledge. Can’t Predict What May Move Readers – In a blog postRead… Read more »
In times of government restraint it is rare that we get 20% of our time to “think out of the box”, as suggested in the “80/20 rule”, so let’s just face facts, but consider an alternative, so we don’t stifle innovation! Instead why not, in the spirit of government lingo, develop another more viable idea:Read… Read more »
This week President Obama laid out his vision for America and his rationale as to why he should be re-elected. In a nearly hour-long speech, he sought to firmly establish himself as the defender of the middle class. While the ideals underpinning his rhetoric are laudable, the approach of demonizing various segments of society isRead… Read more »
The last chapter of the book on our life has not been written yet. We may feel that it won’t be turning out as we had hoped or expected. While we were working – the world changed! The Internet has evolved and many roles which were staffed before are on-line now; Processes which had requiredRead… Read more »
Even when the inevitable stares us in the face, our natural inclination is to want things to stay the same. It is safe. We understand the rules and in the routine we find security. Nothing conjures up a sense of stability, reliability, and community more than the US Postal Service. And nothing is more inRead… Read more »
Every time Newt Gingrich gets another 15 minutes of fame on the national political stage, the conversation inevitably turns to his keen mind and treasure trove of ideas. As a student of leadership styles and a advocate of the benefits these insights they provide, it is no mystery that Newt is doing what is completelyRead… Read more »
Part of my podcast consumption includes something most of you are very familiar with, TED talks. I normally save them up and have a TED marathon every couple of weeks. Recently this one peaked my interest. It is by Steve Keil titled “A Play Manifesto”. Although many of his references are about his home countryRead… Read more »
Confession time: I owe North Dakota an apology. About six months ago, in light of the economic pressures on government employees, budget cuts and downsizings, further calls for their jobs or at least slashing their pensions, I wrote a satirical “Shrink Rap” ditty called “The Reorg Rag.” It started: It can’t happen here, I haveRead… Read more »