THE FACES OF CHANGE
Currently, the idea of Transformation suffers the usual range of audience reactions from hype to backlash dismissal. In between the extremes, sober inspection returns the attention to understanding why the idea is necessary and what actually distinguishes it as being valuable.
In the review below, the…
Fuzzy language promotes fuzzy thinking, and popularity makes fuzzy thinking hard to eliminate. Hardened fuzzy thinking becomes the basis of even more fuzzy thinking and, even worse, of bad decisions that have real consequences including things like confusion, CYA, failure, and dogma. …
Civil Society asks not whether its current crisis is existential but whether the way it makes a difference can meet the known need, now.
Its ability to network is more than ever evident and energized, due to relentless and inspired commitment by established leaders with and to new leaders. Its…
With HR’s new challenge of solving workforce location changes, there is renewed focus on what “resources” should mean in the “human resources” concept — but it seems to be in debate (!) at the worst possible time.
In the recovery period of today’s pandemic, nearly every day (including weekends) features a discussion about where work is getting done.
This is typically framed as a debate about Work FROM Home — regarding how much of a staff can or should work that way, and how much of a…
On any given day, hundreds of job announcements are posted online, targeting candidates who qualify as managers of change.
As a HR professional, you’ve already worked through the necessary listing of requirements (responsibilities) and experience (skills).
Most likely, your resulting published job description blends items that are considered universally definitive…
The Always-On Production of Alignment to Demand
Continual is the term that describes the constant flow of variations in the environment surrounding what we think of as our organizational entity.
Continuous is the term that describes the overall effort we imagine conducting in order to create and sustain our organization’s…
Looking at the most recent Project Management Institute performance survey results for year 2020, the new results are, again, the old results — only different! (The full Pulse of the Profession Survey® can be viewed at www.pmi.org/Pulse.)
A major observation to make is that respondents to the survey said that…
After acknowledging unemployment, the most obvious problem created by COVID’s disruption of work-as-usual is the complexity of the sudden disarray in time and location commitments by individual workers.
We are already getting accustomed to managing this problem by attending to three “channels” of availability seen as the source of workers…
The role of control is changing in the face of market dynamics, employee cultural diversities, and innovation both expected and unexpected.
In the following, we walk through these related aspects of control:
