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Bursting My Own Thought Bubbles
By Holly G. Green
I just returned from one of my longer road trips of the year, and it’s great to be home!
Believe it or not, I used to enjoy business travel. But now, with all the airport security, flight delays, baggage fees, and surly attitudes of airline employees, it has become the least favorite part of what I do for a living. I still love working with different clients around the country. But the ‘getting there’ has become a wearisome task I would gladly eliminate if I could.
I did, however, have a real eye-opener on this latest trip.
I always caution my clients about the importance of not falling victim to our thought bubbles (the unspoken attitudes, assumptions and beliefs that govern how we think and act in the world). While sitting in yet another airport waiting for my flight to board, I experienced a vivid reminder of just how powerful they can be. Read more...
Successful Change – focussing firmly on the positive aspects of organisational change
By Jennifer Kreger
When David Miller, founder and Managing Director of specialist change management provider Changefirst, www.changefirst.com, began to plan his new book Successful Change he was adamant he didn’t want to write just another book on the 70% of change projects that fail. Miller wanted to “shine a light on the more positive aspects of change – and do it in a way that was practically useful to people tasked with delivering change.”
The result? An easy to apply guide that shows you how to deliver successful change within your organisation – and more specifically how you can do this through a focus on people.
In Successful Change Miller draws on the unrivalled experience that he and his team have amassed over the past 16 years through working with large, global companies to help them build their own internal change capability using the Changefirst methodology, processes, research and IP. In this time Miller and his colleagues have trained and worked with over 10,000 people in 35 different countries. This experience is expertly articulated and shared by Miller in Successful Change in a way that is practical and easy to digest and, perhaps more importantly, apply. The book manages the difficult balancing act of being strategic in its coverage but also being full of useful takeaways and step-by-step “how to’s” that change management practitioners can apply immediately in their everyday work. Read more...
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