Education/Training

Education/Training There is now a lot of talk about education, political education, education in general and leadership development in particular. However, if you look at the educational landscape of companies, there is little education to be found. What is to be...

Sprint Workshops: an agile alternative to traditional team workshops

Sprint Workshops: an agile alternative to traditional team workshops As organizations are growing increasingly sensitive to agility, we gain new ground for experiments. This blog text will introduce a sprint workshop format, which has evolved from such an experiment...

Cultural sensitivity allows a more effective Change Management: organizational culture as a field of discourses in tension

Cultural sensitivity allows a more effective Change Management: organizational culture as a field of discourses in tension Cultural anthropologists have addressed the cultural aspects of organizations and companies since the 1920s, beginning with the Hawthorne...

Change Management? It does exist. Yet: What form does it take?

Change Management? It does exist. Yet: What form does it take? »You must either make a tool out of the creature, or a man of him. You cannot make both.« (John Ruskin) A lot of research has gone into the dynamics of Change projects and successful ways of providing...

Mission Statements in Times of hybrid Societies

Mission Statements in Times of hybrid Societies Since the turn of the millennium, a mission statement should be part of every corporate identity. If you don’t have one, you shouldn’t wait any longer and get one! Why? Because they provide an orientation in times of...