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Top 6 change management infographics

2015-01-11T10:23:00.001+01:00

nice summary of some very interesting infographics

if you want to have a fun heads-up on change and resistance don't hesitate to check out Rick's post

Top 6 change management infographics

Western Project Planning Meets Indigenous Cultural Reality | Conversations with Don Machinga and Other Beings

2014-06-19T07:26:00.001+02:00

interesting article about the impact of culture on project planning

your organization might not be as extremely different from western culture as the Shipibo, however it also has its own culture, assumptions and invisible patterns (after all it is hard for fish to describe water...)!

the conclusion on development might be more applicable than you think on training and development

and if that would not be enough, there are some funny Dilbert cartoons on project planning ...

Western Project Planning Meets Indigenous Cultural Reality | Conversations with Don Machinga and Other Beings

The Designer Of The F-15 Explains Just How Stupid The F-35 Is - Digg

2014-06-18T16:15:00.001+02:00

or how by trying to achieve everything in your project, the result is nothing of any good

interesting video to watch as a lessons learned exercise, admittedly it is a little biassed since the project manager of the previous project evaluates the newest project (resistance to change anybody ;0)?

The Designer Of The F-15 Explains Just How Stupid The F-35 Is - Digg

Tools & Models | Change Management Institute

2014-03-25T12:21:00.001+01:00

The change management institute offers 2 interesting models on their website:

- a change manager competency model (and how it interrelates with project management)

- an organisational change maturity model

Tools & Models | Change Management Institute

check out where you are at on the first model and where your company/organisation it at on the second...

ProjectsAtWork - Change Enablers

2014-03-20T19:03:00.001+01:00

another indication that projects and change are ever coming closer to each other (a point we have been working on since 2003)

in this article a nice reference of the work being done by PMI to try to get change closer to the project manager...

ProjectsAtWork - Change Enablers

5 Simple Ways to Make Meetings More Productive - YouTube

2014-03-12T15:16:00.001+01:00

this place is the easiest place to have a meeting and the hardest to get a decision....

sounds familiar? watch this excellent video with 5 simple tips, watch out for the 3rd one ... this is rather counterintuitive, but oh so true and probably the most important one

5 Simple Ways to Make Meetings More Productive - YouTube: )

The Roots Always Win

2014-03-11T14:52:00.001+01:00

powerful manifesto about identity, think about this when managing a project or a change... think about how many things we do in an organization that goes against the roots

ISSUU - Wins by C-Roots

The need to integrate project management and organizational change - Ivey Business Journal

2014-03-11T10:21:00.001+01:00

since everybody seems to be trying to find a body of knowledge for change management these days, this is an interesting read... and call for action for integrating project and change management, something we have been doing for over 10 years in our trainings and coachings

The need to integrate project management and organizational change - Ivey Business Journal

Facts and Figures – Why Projects Fail

2013-01-29T09:04:00.001+01:00

Very comprehensive list of surveys on success and failure in projects,

Facts and Figures – Why Projects Fail

Standish Group's Chaos Report seems to be missing http://blog.standishgroup.com

Thanks to Holger for the tweet/facebook message

Visual harvesting productive and colorful meetings

2013-01-16T14:52:00.000+01:00

in one word: WOW

Visual harvesting productive and colorful meetings from Martine Vanremoortele

Visual harvesting productive and colorful meetings

projectmanagement.com - Widget Thinking

2012-12-12T20:13:00.001+01:00

very good, interesting article about the difference between mechanistic thinking and working with the whole, including some useful tips copied hereunder:

People, not widgets. Narrow job descriptions engender a "not my job" or "not my grade level" attitudes. Rather than fit people to narrow job descriptions, replace fine-grained job descriptions with broad categories that encourage people to use all their skills and capabilities--and develop new ones.
Meaningful “whole” rather than discrete (often meaningless) “part”. Traditional thinking breaks down the work into discrete parts and then organizes people around it. Stable groups form around functions, and cross-functional groups come and go based on fixed projects. What if we turn this around, and analyzed and designed the work with the aim of forming long-lived cross functional teams who work on meaningful wholes rather than discrete parts? Working on a whole rather than a part offers pride in work and meaning. Teams offer engagement, learning and camaraderie.
Notice. Give yourself an assignment to notice. Listen to the language in your organizations. Do people use metaphors that involve factories, production lines and machines? Do your HR policies fit people into tiny boxes, or help people bring all their intelligence and creativity to work?

projectmanagement.com - Widget Thinking

you will have to register to read the whole article, but the registration for basic membership is free, plus this is a great site altogether (used to be gantthead.com)

UnderstandingSociety: Simulating social mechanisms

2012-12-10T09:46:00.001+01:00

as complexity becomes more and more an apparent need for change management (and hence also for project management) this is an interesting article about how to simulate this (very relevant as we are getting more into using simulations to train people in change management using Mindsetter)

UnderstandingSociety: Simulating social mechanisms

Leading Lite on Scoop.it

2012-11-27T10:09:00.001+01:00

This is a great channel in Scoop.it created by Transformational Leadership

it offers a bunch of interesting materials (posters, videos, quotes) from all over the web on leadership, very valuable indeed!

Leading Lite | Scoop.it

Seth's Blog: The decline of fascination and the rise in ennui

2012-11-24T11:47:00.001+01:00

What is true for products and markets in Seth's blog is certainly also true for management approaches!

Quite a few clients come to us for a new approach in project management or change management, while it is actually more valuable to look at the existing and try to figure out what already works and get more of that. Of course a new package can sometimes help in convincing people, but the search for new is definitely on...

Seth's Blog: The decline of fascination and the rise in ennui

I am also under the impression I am seeing more and more bore outs and less burn outs in organizations...

Seth's Blog: You can't argue with success...

2012-11-11T11:52:00.001+01:00

think about this one on this nice sunday morning...

Seth's Blog: You can't argue with success...

the answer Seth gives is:
"Of course you can. What else are you going to argue with? Failure can't argue with you, because it knows that it didn't work.

The art of staying successful is in being open to having the argument. Great organizations fail precisely because they refuse to do this."

games the learning playing brain

2012-10-17T16:22:00.001+02:00

great blog article
we will need to redesign the way we teach, learn and play...

@Ignatia Webs: #mLearn12 Lauri Jarvilehto on #games the learning playing brain

Take your project management application open source with ProjectLibre | TechRepublic

2012-10-03T19:01:00.001+02:00

Another alternative for MS Project, next to Ganttproject

Take your project management application open source with ProjectLibre | TechRepublic

Seth's Blog: When execution gets cheaper, so should planning

2012-04-04T12:58:00.001+02:00

this is a discussion we often encounter when talking to project managers: how much planning is enough. A lot of people are afraid to do too much of it and spend most of their time in planning stuff that will never happen. So they are afraid of getting bogged down in the bureaucracy of MS Project or other planning tools. On the other hand this is sometimes necessary to be better prepared, so what is the right balance? read Seth's take on this:

Seth's Blog: When execution gets cheaper, so should planning

Anger and Innovation | tompeters!

2012-03-15T19:13:00.001+01:00

this is how change happens: from fury
I would amend it a little, but the passion needs to be there, the drive, the will to succeed, the will to change...

Anger and Innovation | tompeters!

@Ignatia Webs: #MOOC benefits for international learners

2012-03-15T14:28:00.001+01:00

MOOC stands for massive open online courses

this is a great presentation Inge is sharing on her lessons learned of a MobiMOOC (so using mobile devices) in an international environment

@Ignatia Webs: #MOOC benefits for international learners

Seth's Blog: The map has been replaced by the compass

2012-02-21T11:45:00.000+01:00

Very true blog from Seth Godin
we spend so much time teaching people the map, that we don't even tell them about the compass
so we have to reteach them the map every time we want to change...

However change happens faster and faster, so when will the limit of this teaching be reached?

Seth's Blog: The map has been replaced by the compass

Stop the Cycle Campaign | Fubiz™

2012-01-26T12:13:00.000+01:00

Wow these are wonderfully striking images, and they underline nicely the previous blog based on Seth Godin, go have a look, they are wonderful in showing the consequences of 1 action (repeated, and repeated, and repeated, ....)

Stop the Cycle Campaign | Fubiz™

Seth's Blog: Who cares?

2012-01-26T12:10:00.000+01:00

delightful, bringing care in the workplace, as in who gives a shit anyway? In my experience people are very binary on this, they really, really care or they do not care at all. The most striking test, I think, is: "will people do the right thing when they think their boss is not looking?"

Seth's Blog: Who cares?

40 Belief-Shaking Remarks From a Ruthless Nonconformist

2012-01-11T09:53:00.000+01:00

Every once in a while it is worthwhile to digg back into philosophy to find my own restraints.

this is one of the blogposts that made me think, read it and see what it does to you...

40 Belief-Shaking Remarks From a Ruthless Nonconformist

oh by the way I thoroughly enjoy Nietzsche these last months

Change Management Sketchnotes by Linda Saukko-Rauta - Sketchnote Army - A Showcase of Sketchnotes

2011-12-19T15:30:00.001+01:00

Lovely sketchnote, or drawing about how organizations don't change, but people do, with a little model for change on the bottom half...

Change Management Sketchnotes by Linda Saukko-Rauta - Sketchnote Army - A Showcase of Sketchnotes