Tag: how organizations change

Emerging Organization Designs – Part II: Models of Functioning

Last week in Part I, I briefly specified three organizational forms of Adaptive Enterprises that we are seeing in today’s world of work – 1)  Hierarchically-integrated, Decentralized Organizations 2)  Value Realization Networks 3)  Social Eco-systems The images (transformation process models)…

Helen Maupin

Culture Change: Keep your Values, Change your Ideals

Recently, I worked with my local urban transit corporation to transform their command and control culture.  Why?  The internal relationships between management and bus operators brought them to the edge of strike action.  Resentment in the workplace had become so…

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Organizational Change is Personal Change

In its simplest definition, Emotional Intelligence (EI) is the capacity of being socially and self-aware.   The theory states the more able we are to understand and manage our emotions as well as understand those of others, not only do we…

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Transformation’s Hurdles: Judgment, Depression and Fear

“I think there are good reasons for suggesting that the modern age has ended.  Today, many things indicate that we are going through a transitional period, when it seems that something is on the way out and something else is…

Helen Maupin

Relax – Release – Receive, then Act!

  Life always reveals to me exactly what I need to know. Gratefully the shadow side of Self, which inhibits growth, is constantly forced to die.  In essence, these death cycles mark a necessary ending of beliefs and behaviours that…

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Truth, Beauty and Goodness: Ingredients of Amazing Organizations

Bill Taylor, co-founder of Fast Company magazine and author of Practically Radical:  Not-So-Crazy Ways to Transform Your Company, Shake Up Your Industry, and Challenge Yourself, declares that adequate products and services are no longer ‘good enough’ in the market place. …

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