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Bloomstorm Blog: Change We Can All Embrace
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Saturday, 25 July 2009. Change We Can All Embrace. In reality, we enjoy and embrace change all the time - so let's not get hung up on it. Let's hit the beach instead. It's funny. So much of the literature on business change is predicated on the notion that people resist change. Yet in our lives we invoke it, create it, seek it all the time. Because it is fun. It is enjoyable. It opens us up to new experiences. And sometimes it is life-changing. Do we resist this change? Do we need a force-field analysis?
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Bloomstorm Blog: June 2009
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Thursday, 25 June 2009. The Change Time Machine. If we concentrate more on working differently and less on thinking about "the change" then we reduce the prospect of resistance and make the chances of success significantly easier. The most successful programmes that I have seen begin instead by getting some people to do something different - something real that makes a visible difference. When others ask "how did you do that? Then you're into the real change game. Subscribe to: Posts (Atom). In this blog...
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Bloomstorm Blog: The Change Time Machine
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Thursday, 25 June 2009. The Change Time Machine. If we concentrate more on working differently and less on thinking about "the change" then we reduce the prospect of resistance and make the chances of success significantly easier. The most successful programmes that I have seen begin instead by getting some people to do something different - something real that makes a visible difference. When others ask "how did you do that? Then you're into the real change game. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom).
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Bloomstorm Blog: October 2009
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Friday, 30 October 2009. Put the Cart Before the Horse. It is a crying shame that most organisations put responsibility for change squarely on the individual. “It is up to you,” they seem to say, “to change yourself, to be positive about change, to work in new ways. To help you, here is some training.” As if the reason why people don’t change is lack of skills. To make working in new ways easier and the old ways harder? To change things so that we pay attention to new ways of working? Most of the time* w...
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Bloomstorm Blog: The Need For Speed
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Sunday, 19 July 2009. The Need For Speed. Cost Removal is one of the hardest kinds of change initiative. Yet some of the new thinking on change may go some way to helping companies transition to lower-cost business faster, with less pain than before. As the economic crunch bites. So does the need for companies to cut costs. Cost removal is one of the toughest kinds of change initiative. For one thing, when you are downsizing, successful implementation can't rely on positive engagement and buy-in. So as w...
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Bloomstorm Blog: Change and the Discworld
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Thursday, 3 January 2008. Change and the Discworld. A new year is a good time for launching new ideas. Where did 2007 go? Seriously, I hope you all had a great holiday season and that 2008 will bring you what you hope for. As for us, Jan 1. 2008 was the first official day of Bloomstorm. Ing (is that a word? And we're moving more to doing, rather than simply thinking, mode. And this state would have continued, had I not been given a copy of Terry Pratchett. Why are you always in such a hurry, Mr Lipwig?
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Bloomstorm Blog: May 2009
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Sunday, 31 May 2009. Fight the Right Battles. An incorrect assumption about the purpose of change management causes many change projects to fail. By. Thinking differently about change, however, we can take control of the process and significantly increase our chances of success. One of the ways you know a technology is advancing is that it becomes easier to use. Windows. Is easier to use than MSDOS. Most of us rarely have to worry about (or even lift up to find out) what is under our car’s bonnet. And a ...
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Bloomstorm Blog: Welcome to the Blender
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Saturday, 5 September 2009. Welcome to the Blender. We are facing huge change - but we've faced huge change before. And even if the economy is slowing, it's still enormous and full of opportunity. The future belongs to those of us who accept that things will be different and refuse to play the recession game. We are in the midst of a set of unprecedented changes that are reshaping our world and which will leave us living in different ways. Things like the global credit crunch. Will apply exponentially...
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Bloomstorm Blog: Put the Cart Before the Horse
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Friday, 30 October 2009. Put the Cart Before the Horse. It is a crying shame that most organisations put responsibility for change squarely on the individual. “It is up to you,” they seem to say, “to change yourself, to be positive about change, to work in new ways. To help you, here is some training.” As if the reason why people don’t change is lack of skills. To make working in new ways easier and the old ways harder? To change things so that we pay attention to new ways of working? Visit our home page.
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Bloomstorm Blog: September 2009
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Wednesday, 9 September 2009. Don't Let The Size Of The Mountain Scare You. When we want to implement large-scale change, we need to ensure that the scale of the journey doesn't overwhelm us before we begin. And then they chose not to proceed - in part, it seems, because it was too much, too fast. Instead they came back and asked if we might omit some of the activities and maybe take a little longer. They, like most people who recognise the need for genuine change, had not been able to work out how to do ...