Image by Okinawa Soba (In Asia and Africa until August) via Flickr Cummings and Worley acknowledge the importance of appreciating, if not understanding, the cultural context when considering an OD interventions. This includes culture on a national, regional, tribal, religious and ethnic dimension as well as the traditional social norms. They remind us that interventions […]
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Integrated strategic change and how it differs from traditional strategic planning and traditional planned organization change
Image via Wikipedia Cummings and Worley define the concept of integrated strategic change (ISC) as a comprehensive OD intervention that examines how plan change that can add value to strategic management. The integrative piece looks at a synthesis of business strategies and organizational systems responding together to external and/or internal disruptions. This strategic change plan […]
appreciating intermediate term trends
examining the use of the slope of the 30 day regression line for understanding intermediate term trends in context
our ass-kickin’ president…
Image via Wikipedia I guess I am glad Spike Lee didn’t suggest that Obama should drop a bomb somewhere to beef up his street cred, yo’ Could Robert Gibbs (D-oofus) be any more clueless about how business runs than to suggest CEOs arent the real power in corporations, in defense of why Obama hasn’t talked […]
Diagnosing and alleviating stress in the workplace: theory and practice
Image via Wikipedia Organizations are becoming more aware of the relationship between employee wellness and proactivity, with one estimate suggesting job stress costs US businesses over 300 billion annually. The response has been a rise of OD interventions such as fitness, wellness and stress management programs whose goals include individual well-being or wellness. Health is […]
Major demographic trends and implications for organizational development/design
Image via Wikipedia One trend is a growing recognition that diversity means more than simply cultural or racial differences; there’s recognition of this definition is too narrow. Diversity comes about from people with different resources, perspectives, and needs, preferences, expectations and lifestyles in addition to their cultural and racial makeup. Another trend is the serious […]
The motivational approach to work design.
Image via Wikipedia Work design is concerned with creating jobs and workgroups to generate high levels of employee fulfillment and productivity. It can be a standalone change program or part of a larger program. Three approaches to work design include: the engineering approach which focuses on efficiency and simplification; sociotechnical approach, which balances the social and […]
Traders Roundtable: the fifth P of successful trading is Performance
A lot of beginning traders are under the mistaken assumption that if they have a back tested system, good preparation, and a relaxed state of mind that they have an almost certainty of being successful. If only it were that easy. All the preparation and the world does not guarantee effective performance. We still have […]
Obama and competence
Image via Wikipedia Conservatives are as nutty over Obama as liberals were over Bush I agree with everything #38 posted except for the evil part. He’s evil, as evil as Stalin or Hitler or Pol Pot. as evil as Stalin, Hitler or Pol Pot?! really? the greatest mass murderers in history? for one thing, he […]
Transparency in your personal life: an act of courage
Image by Will Lion via Flickr Transparency was one of the stated values of our most recent senior leader in the college, and as I look back at his two-year career here, as he prepares to depart, I can see that he really lived that value area it made it very easy to work with […]