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Who is to blame for poor performance of employees and business? Ask line managers; they blame it on HR for poor hiring. Ask HR; they blame it on line managers for poor management skills. Ask me, I would say, the Axe???? Now you will ask what (the hell) an Axe has to do in &lt;a href="http://empxtrack.com/performance-management-system/" target="_blank"&gt;performance management &lt;/a&gt;business? Let me tell you a small&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;i&gt;Very motivated with the boss’s words, the woodcutter tried harder the next day, but he could bring only 15 trees. The third day he tried even harder, but could bring 10 trees only. Day after day he was bringing less and less trees. “I must be losing my strength”, the woodcutter thought.&lt;/i&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;i&gt;He went to the boss and apologized, saying that he could not understand what was going on. “When was the last time you sharpened your Axe?” the boss asked. “Sharpen? I had no time to sharpen my Axe. I have been very busy trying to cut more trees for you.”&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"&gt; Yes, the ‘Axe’ has a lot to do in a &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="http://empxtrack.com/performance-management-system/" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;" target="_blank"&gt;performance management business&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"&gt;. This “Axe” for better performance is an employee’s competencies and skills. In any organization the call to sharpen the Axe needs be taken by HR.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"&gt; Ask yourself a question “Are employees working hard without proportionate results?”. If the answer is yes, then probably, it is time to examine your employee’s ‘Axe” and sharpen it. In highly competitive business environment, the gap between existing capabilities of employee and required capabilities to compete in the market place widens much faster. A business that cannot bridge these gaps gets wiped off (lot of examples are there).&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;span style="color: blue; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"&gt; Like the supervisor in the story, you need to have an evaluation mechanism that can find the skill and competencies gaps in your workforce. This evaluation can be done by streamlining your performance management system so that it could provide better data on skill and competency gaps. These competency gaps extracted as output of &lt;a href="http://empxtrack.com/performance-management-system/" target="_blank"&gt;Performance Management System&lt;/a&gt; should be used to design training and development programs.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;span style="color: blue; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"&gt; Well-designed training programs (which are focused on developing skills and competencies necessary for a specific job) help you improve employees’ erformance significantly and relieve them from work pressure. You can be gin by identifying the training needs, managing course ware, co-coordinate with faculties, manage training facilities and obtain feed back from your trainees &amp;amp; their managers about the effectiveness of the program. For mid to large organizations, it is possible only if your HR is equipped with a &lt;a href="http://empxtrack.com/training-management-system/" target="_blank"&gt;Training Management tool&lt;/a&gt; that can keep the Axe sharpened all the while.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;Winner's don't do different things they do things differently.&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/527860255561129206-693557029014579579?l=vinayhrm.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://vinayhrm.blogspot.com/feeds/693557029014579579/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://vinayhrm.blogspot.com/2012/02/story-performance-management-and-hr.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/527860255561129206/posts/default/693557029014579579?v=2'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/527860255561129206/posts/default/693557029014579579?v=2'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://vinayhrm.blogspot.com/2012/02/story-performance-management-and-hr.html' title='A Story - Performance Management and HR'/><author><name>Vinay Ravindran</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/09791033007139790630</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='24' height='32' src='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-FzpyinRAvMM/T1xYS1iyWPI/AAAAAAAAB9E/FLRTmeru5fU/s220/FIL01789.JPG'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-3JbIJh57EUQ/Tz3-S04bmyI/AAAAAAAAB8k/uqpwzw_hbWo/s72-c/axe.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry gd:etag='W/&quot;CEQARHo_eip7ImA9WhRaFUo.&quot;'><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-527860255561129206.post-7749619457703493624</id><published>2012-02-16T22:43:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2012-02-18T05:39:05.442-08:00</updated><app:edited xmlns:app='http://www.w3.org/2007/app'>2012-02-18T05:39:05.442-08:00</app:edited><title>10 Great Ways to Make Bad Hiring Decisions</title><content type='html'>&lt;div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-EKCabCa99LE/Tz33BZ0m0XI/AAAAAAAAB8c/qWP8IaZznIM/s1600/6_2_static_outcomes_hiring_decisions.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="109" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-EKCabCa99LE/Tz33BZ0m0XI/AAAAAAAAB8c/qWP8IaZznIM/s400/6_2_static_outcomes_hiring_decisions.jpg" width="400" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"&gt;The underlying purpose was to demonstrate the point that many important decisions, especially hiring decisions, are based on invalid assumptions, false impressions, personal beliefs, and lack of objective data.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"&gt;With this article as a starting point, let me offer some expert advice on how to make really bad hiring decisions:&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;span style="color: #990000; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;1. Make Emotional Decisions and Justify them with Facts&lt;/b&gt;.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;span style="color: blue;"&gt;Most interviewers make quick judgments about a candidate based on the four “A’s”&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;span style="color: blue; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"&gt;– how attractive, articulate, assertive, and affable the candidate is. Candidates who pass the test are asked easier questions, with the interviewer looking for information to justify the positive impression. Contradictory and negative information is ignored.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;span style="color: blue; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"&gt;Candidates who don’t meet the appropriate first impression standard are assumed incompetent, with the interviewer asking tougher questions and seeking only information to prove their initial emotional judgment. Why waste your valuable time? Instead, just conduct a five-minute interview and forget collecting any facts. It won’t make any difference in your final decision, anyway.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style="color: #990000; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"&gt;2. Do Not Seek Out Objective Data if it Contradicts&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;span style="color: blue; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"&gt;Your Beliefs Or Ignore it if You Find Some. I remember meeting a very attractive and seemingly quite competent candidate for a Sales Manager spot, who gave a superficial answer to an Sales strategy question. I had to fight with myself about whether to ask a challenging follow-up question which would prove he was unqualified on this important job criteria. After some soul searching, I asked the question, which he flubbed, and he was not presented. The point of this is that it’s very tough to eliminate a candidate you like, and even tougher to seek out positive information for candidates you don’t initially think would fit. So rather than get to the truth, go the easy route, and trust your gut feelings and first impressions.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style="color: #990000;"&gt;3. Make Sure No One Knows the Real Job.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue;"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;span style="color: blue; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"&gt;The purpose of the interview is to determine competency and motivation to do the actual work required. If you don’t know what work the candidate is actually going to be doing it’s impossible to assess motivation. Competency, on the other hand, is pretty easy to figure out with just a rough understanding of job needs. Unfortunately, when you look at the underperformers in your company, you’ll discover most of them are quite competent to do the work, they just don’t find the work they’re doing very satisfying. These are the people that need to be over-managed and pushed to achieve average results. So to make sure you hire more of these people, go out of your way to not tell the person you’re hiring anything about the job until the day she starts. What a surprise that will be.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style="color: #990000;"&gt;4. Use Skills-Based Job Descriptions to Find, Screen, and Assess Candidates&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue;"&gt;.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue;"&gt;The best candidates tend to have a track record of achievement, comparable (but not identical) skills, and are quick-learners. This is how the best talent is promoted within an organization. Yet, when hiring from outside we use a criteria that eliminates these top performers from consideration, seeking only those candidates who have exactly the right skills doing exactly the same work. The only people who fit this criteria are average candidates. So keep up the average work. While you won’t get promoted, you will get hired.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;span style="color: #990000; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;5. Make Sure Your Ads are Hard to Find&lt;/b&gt;.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;span style="color: blue; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"&gt;&amp;nbsp;When top people begin the job-hunting process they tend to seek out former associates, Google for jobs (e.g., “software sales jobs Hyderabad”), use social networking sites, or conduct some top-down industry research looking for the best industries and companies that meet their needs. If your jobs can’t be easily found by candidates using these techniques, you’ll never see the best people. To continue not seeing any good people make sure you continue to post your ads on the major boards, where the best people look last.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;span style="color: #cc0000; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;6. Write Boring Ads that Start with the Req Number&lt;/b&gt;.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;span style="color: blue; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"&gt;If your ads are found, make sure they’re so boring that they preclude a good person from even applying. You can do this by leading off with the req number, a dumb title, telling the person whether the job is full-time or not, and if you’ll pay for relocation. Then go into a boring description of the job. Then make sure you clearly state that the candidate must not apply unless the person possess a laundry list of skills and&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;span style="color: blue; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"&gt;experiences that was lifted from some job description written a few years ago.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;span style="color: #990000; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;7. Make Sure that Interviewers are Untrained and Can Ask Any Questions They Want&lt;/b&gt;.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;span style="color: blue; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"&gt;Hiring mistakes are no big deal, so why not let anyone interview the candidate, ask any questions they want, and then ask them whether you should hire the person using whatever criteria they think appropriate. To make matters worse, only let untrained interviewers meet your candidates. This will certainly impress those top candidates you see regarding your company’s level of professionalism.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;span style="color: #990000; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;8. Add Up the Yes and No Votes&lt;/b&gt;.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;span style="color: blue; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"&gt;Here’s a sure-fire way to get the hiring decision wrong…let each untrained, biased, emotional, and superficial interviewer have a full yes/no vote on who should get hired. Then to even out these errors, give a no vote more power than a yes vote, give unprepared interviewers the same voting rights as prepared interviewers, and then add up the votes. To make sure this process works as described, do not challenge anyone’s assessment, just in case the person might get offended. This is more important than the right answer.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style="color: #990000; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"&gt;9. Force Candidates to Formally Apply before You Can Even Chat With Them.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;span style="color: blue; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"&gt; Top people, when they just enter into the job-hunting process, have lots of questions and are comparing different companies and situations. One good way to prevent seeing or hiring any of these people is to not let them just talk with a recruiter or hiring manager unless they formally apply first. Most won’t, but if you have some persistent&amp;nbsp;person who still decides to apply anyway, make sure you have him complete a rigorous application process, submit a resume and a statement that everything stated is true. Of course, to make sure a good person doesn’t sneak through this bureaucratic blockade, be sure not to contact the person for a least a week. Collectively, this will show the person you mean business.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;span style="color: #990000; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;10. Focus On Compensation and Skills Rather than Career Opportunities.&lt;/b&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;span style="color: blue; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"&gt;Since the best people are more concerned with career growth, the opportunity to make an impact and want to know the broad details about the job before getting serious, we don’t want to give them any of this information. Who knows, somebody good might actually be interested in and qualified for one of our open jobs. Instead, to prevent this from happening, don’t discuss the job at all, first screen candidates only on their skills and then tell them what your comp range is. If there isn’t a fit here, don’t waste your time, just go on to another candidate. You certainly wouldn’t want to ask candidates about some of their major achievements first and see if any of your other openings better match their needs. They actually might be interested in one of these jobs, despite the comp range. Wouldn’t that mess things up.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;span style="color: blue; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;*Source not Known&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;Winner's don't do different things they do things differently.&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/527860255561129206-7749619457703493624?l=vinayhrm.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://vinayhrm.blogspot.com/feeds/7749619457703493624/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://vinayhrm.blogspot.com/2012/02/10-great-ways-to-make-bad-hiring.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/527860255561129206/posts/default/7749619457703493624?v=2'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/527860255561129206/posts/default/7749619457703493624?v=2'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://vinayhrm.blogspot.com/2012/02/10-great-ways-to-make-bad-hiring.html' title='10 Great Ways to Make Bad Hiring Decisions'/><author><name>Vinay Ravindran</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/09791033007139790630</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='24' height='32' src='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-FzpyinRAvMM/T1xYS1iyWPI/AAAAAAAAB9E/FLRTmeru5fU/s220/FIL01789.JPG'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-EKCabCa99LE/Tz33BZ0m0XI/AAAAAAAAB8c/qWP8IaZznIM/s72-c/6_2_static_outcomes_hiring_decisions.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry gd:etag='W/&quot;DEQARHY-fCp7ImA9WhRaEUQ.&quot;'><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-527860255561129206.post-1888777029229938346</id><published>2012-02-13T21:12:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2012-02-13T21:12:25.854-08:00</updated><app:edited xmlns:app='http://www.w3.org/2007/app'>2012-02-13T21:12:25.854-08:00</app:edited><title>Techniques to Practice</title><content type='html'>&lt;div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-UyMrdfY6nrI/TznspV4QznI/AAAAAAAAB8M/XKa7aldbNuM/s1600/Presentation1.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="300" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-UyMrdfY6nrI/TznspV4QznI/AAAAAAAAB8M/XKa7aldbNuM/s400/Presentation1.png" width="400" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"&gt;Watch out my presentation on "How to Motivate People" -Shortly.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;Winner's don't do different things they do things differently.&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/527860255561129206-1888777029229938346?l=vinayhrm.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://vinayhrm.blogspot.com/feeds/1888777029229938346/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://vinayhrm.blogspot.com/2012/02/techniques-to-practice.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/527860255561129206/posts/default/1888777029229938346?v=2'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/527860255561129206/posts/default/1888777029229938346?v=2'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://vinayhrm.blogspot.com/2012/02/techniques-to-practice.html' title='Techniques to Practice'/><author><name>Vinay Ravindran</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/09791033007139790630</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='24' height='32' src='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-FzpyinRAvMM/T1xYS1iyWPI/AAAAAAAAB9E/FLRTmeru5fU/s220/FIL01789.JPG'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-UyMrdfY6nrI/TznspV4QznI/AAAAAAAAB8M/XKa7aldbNuM/s72-c/Presentation1.png' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry gd:etag='W/&quot;DkUCRHs_cSp7ImA9WhRUGU8.&quot;'><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-527860255561129206.post-1809643607707623934</id><published>2012-01-30T03:51:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2012-01-30T03:51:05.549-08:00</updated><app:edited xmlns:app='http://www.w3.org/2007/app'>2012-01-30T03:51:05.549-08:00</app:edited><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='OD'/><title>The Challenge of OD</title><content type='html'>&lt;div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;span style="color: blue;"&gt;Traditionally, OD has been recognized as a discipline which emerged from social psychology. However, as a discipline develops, it needs to lengthen its branches and absorb from different fields which can add value to it and further its objectives. Furthermore, as a discipline is applied, new issues are thrown up and new learning happens resulting in the discipline’s transcending of traditional boundaries.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;span style="color: blue;"&gt;This is what is happening with OD. It is breaking away from its traditional moorings in the social psychological area and is beginning to develop a new and more valuable place for itself in an organizational setting.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;span style="color: blue;"&gt;Let’s examine the transitions of this field on the basis of its success and failure pattern in its endeavor to add value to organizations.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;span style="color: blue;"&gt;A Government organization entered the field of OD by hiring an OD consultant for doing survey feedback. The consultant followed a text book approach. He collected data from all members of the senior management team and also through focuses group interviews. He also deployed a questionnaire to collect individual response data from a cross section of organizational personnel.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;span style="color: blue;"&gt;The consultant diligently analyzed the data and presented it to the senior management team members.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;span style="color: blue;"&gt;Dissatisfaction of decades of lack of upward communication and an ivory tower attitude emerged in cascades of negativism towards the organization and its leaders.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;span style="color: blue;"&gt;The organizational personnel spoke out in strength against bureaucratic processes and the hijacking of HR policies by senior management personnel.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;span style="color: blue;"&gt;The consultant did the job of analyzing, synthesizing and categorizing data.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;span style="color: blue;"&gt;As the consultant was presenting the data, there was strong resistance from the senior management team members.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;span style="color: blue;"&gt;The “Survey Feedback Report” became a political document to downgrade the leaders. The “Performers” as well as the “Initiators” of the OD exercise suffered while the “Non-performers” became the aggressors.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;span style="color: blue;"&gt;The “Survey Feedback Report” did not yield any positive organization development outcome. It only had negative political fallouts. Thus, a lot of effort was put in with no impact.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;span style="color: blue;"&gt;Such OD failures become important steps on the learning ladder. They yield important learning points.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;span style="color: blue;"&gt;Some of the key learning points that emerge are:&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;span style="color: blue;"&gt;1. The data collected should be evenly balanced between qualitative and quantitative data.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;span style="color: blue;"&gt;Both these kinds of data have their weaknesses. It is only in combination that they become potent especially when they throw up patterns about performance parameters.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;span style="color: blue;"&gt;2.&lt;span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"&gt; &lt;/span&gt;There needs to be briefing of all senior management team members when the OD intervention is initiated. The buy in of all the Sr.Management Team members is important for the success of the OD intervention.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;span style="color: blue;"&gt;This reduces the forces of resistance to the OD interventions. It also creates alignment among senior management members regarding the objectives and the process of the OD intervention.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;span style="color: blue;"&gt;3.&lt;span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"&gt; &lt;/span&gt;The framework of the OD intervention should focus the intervention on enhancing organizational performance. If it is focused on only social-psychological change, it is not only inadequate, it also raises questions about the OD intervention’s relevance to a business organization.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;span style="color: blue;"&gt;An often repeated statement against OD intervention is that they are good to do things but impractical and would not impact the organization’s effectiveness in any manner.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;span style="color: blue;"&gt;In order to make the OD intervention relevant, it needs to identify and assess the organization on performance parameters, key organization processes, competencies, SMT activities as well as mindsets.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;span style="color: blue;"&gt;After incorporating the framework, an organization deployed it to enhance the performance of its sales personnel.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;span style="color: blue;"&gt;This was an interesting application of the OD framework since it was not focused on the entire organization but to one set of organizational personnel.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;span style="color: blue;"&gt;When the collected data was presented to the national sales management team, there was a remarkable level of seriousness in the air.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;span style="color: blue;"&gt;The National sales manager took immediate action with respect to an inadequacy in the incentives system of the sales personnel.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;span style="color: blue;"&gt;A comprehensive system of diagnostics makes the data difficult to ignore.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;span style="color: blue;"&gt;The process gaps and competency gaps which emerged got addressed and the process innovations which got generated were examined for application.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;span style="color: blue;"&gt;The successful practices adopted in our part of the working were replicated in other regions.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;span style="color: blue;"&gt;These actions had a direct impact on the functioning and performance of the sales force.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;span style="color: blue;"&gt;That is the hallmark of a potent OD intervention. It impacts organizational functioning and performance.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;span style="color: blue;"&gt;When OD is practiced in such a manner, the relevance can be judged by the lack of rude comments and the seriousness of action planning and execution that results.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;span style="color: blue;"&gt;Which leader does not want to enhance performance?&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;span style="color: blue;"&gt;If an OD intervention can enable the leader to influence performance, there is no shortage of time for it.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;span style="color: blue;"&gt;OD: An honorable target&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;span style="color: blue;"&gt;What is it about OD that makes it a desirable activity? Every trainer also wants to be an OD Practitioner. Perhaps, it has something to do with the name itself. Developing the organization is a worthy goal. I am reminded of the statement of a Japanese U-boat captain in a hilarious film says, “we will target Hollywood, because it is an honorable target.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;span style="color: blue;"&gt;OD has a similar attraction for HR professionals. It is an honorable target. An inherent disadvantage of the HR profession is the intangible outcome of HR effort. Thus, there is a latent desire in every HR professional’s heart to make a lasting and visible impact on an organization, which can not be questioned. It is quite tiresome to be the favorite punching bag of anybody who has a grudge with the organization.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;span style="color: blue;"&gt;Desiring to add value to the organization through OD is one thing, actually catalyzing an enhancement in the organization’s effectiveness is another. In OD, one cannot get away because of the inadequacies of the system as in the measurement of training effectiveness. The barometer of the success or failure of an OD intervention is there for everybody to see and feel.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;span style="color: blue;"&gt;One major block in the implementation of OD is the lack of understanding of what it is all about. It is confused with training. The prevalent mental pattern related to training is useful for reducing resistance to training but it creates a blind spot for OD.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;span style="color: blue;"&gt;The inadequacies of the training mindset cascade into OD. Participants of training programs have got used to the “passive” role which is predominant in different training scenarios. The trainer has to do all the work. The participants can sit back and evaluate the program. This predominant mindset results in their being a little surprised when an OD intervention is initiated. All of a sudden, there is serious work going on in the workshop. Real issues are being discussed and real solutions are being found. This can lead to them becoming a little disconcerted unless they are briefed properly.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;span style="color: blue;"&gt;This is exemplified by the failure of an ambitious OD intervention in a Technology company. This company ventured to roll out an OD intervention in 3 phases. The participants were not briefed about the objectives, the process to be followed and their role in the OD Intervention. The atmosphere during the initiation of the OD Intervention was non serious. The participants were approaching it as just another training program. The result was that the HR department did not put into place the structures and systems that trigger the conversion of the learning in the first phase of the OD intervention into action.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;span style="color: blue;"&gt;The result was that the OD intervention got truncated after the first phase.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;span style="color: blue;"&gt;What do we learn from this experience?&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;span style="color: blue;"&gt;The HR department as well as the participants needs to approach an OD intervention with a completely different mindset as compared to training.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;span style="color: blue;"&gt;The participants have to be active elements of the OD intervention rather than the passive role that they tend to adopt in training programs.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;span style="color: blue;"&gt;Moreover, the HR department needs to play a facilitative and persistent role in the implementation of the OD action plan. Thus, the HR department needs to make a transition from an observer’s role during regular training programs to an active facilitator’s role. Without this participation, the OD Intervention is bound to fail.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;span style="color: blue;"&gt;Let’s examine another OD failure that highlights this. An organization wanted to generate Innovations in different functional areas. This required an OD intervention which involved competence development as well as competence application.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;span style="color: blue;"&gt;The organization deployed a highly effective competence development system taking into consideration each stage in the competence development process.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;span style="color: blue;"&gt;However, not enough attention was given to ,”Application of Innovation competencies’ to generate innovations in Key result areas. No structures were created to support the Prototype development process.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;span style="color: blue;"&gt;The impact was that in spite of having potent Innovation ideas, no innovations ensued. After 6 months of the OD initiation, the potent innovation ideas were still languishing. They had not been converted into prototypes.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;span style="color: blue;"&gt;Hence, a lot of potential got wasted.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;span style="color: blue;"&gt;The key learning that emerges is that multiple initiatives need to be taken in order to make an OD intervention successful.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;span style="color: blue;"&gt;This leads to the obvious question, “Is OD really worth it?” The power of OD lies in its ability to trigger self organizing as well as planned change.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;span style="color: blue;"&gt;The diagnostic data collected in most OD interventions makes the intervention valid thereby making it difficult to oppose.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;span style="color: blue;"&gt;Nobody wants to be told that there is something wrong with them. If any diagnosis is not backed up by data, it is bound to be opposed.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;span style="color: blue;"&gt;The diagnostic data reduces opposition and creates openness to change.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;span style="color: blue;"&gt;During the action planning stage of an OD intervention in a large public Ltd Company, the consultant was facing staff resistance regarding the need for a change in the upward communication process.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;span style="color: blue;"&gt;“There is no need for any change. We are getting all the suggestions or grievances”” was the quote.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;span style="color: blue;"&gt;It was only when the quantitative data, regarding the ineffectiveness of upward communication was highlighted that the resistance to a “Communication Process change” declined.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;span style="color: blue;"&gt;The diagnostic data by itself acts as “feedback” to the organization and its key personnel. Even, if no planned change is initiated, self organizing change tends to set in.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;span style="color: blue;"&gt;This is highlighted by the experience of a consultant who had done a diagnostic exercise. A key competency gap among senior management functionaries emerged in the data. The impact of this data was that suddenly all senior management members had queries about the competency and the search behavior which is associated with exploration was evident.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;span style="color: blue;"&gt;Thus, it is not surprising that HR professionals also want to be OD practitioners.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;span style="color: blue;"&gt;OD in name and not in deed&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;span style="color: blue;"&gt;Riding the OD Horse: Easier said than done&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;span style="color: blue;"&gt;Organization development is an exciting field from the perspective of the brand that it carries. When, you hear or utter the term, “O.D”, ears pick up and fellow professionals look at you with new respect in their eyes.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;span style="color: blue;"&gt;The few initiatives that have been taken have either resulted in failure or minimal success. The amount of effort required to make OD initiatives successful has not been realized. Everybody wants to eat the cake but nobody wants to put in the effort to make it sweet and value adding.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;span style="color: blue;"&gt;Triggering any change is easier said than done. The entire system rebels against new initiatives. Most of the time, it is not even rebellion, it is plain inertia. Newton’s law of motion is applicable even in the context of Organization change, “Everything continues in its state of rest or motion until some force acts on it.”&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;span style="color: blue;"&gt;For organizational change, enormous force and persistence in application is required.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;span style="color: blue;"&gt;Let’s examine the experience of an OD initiative which resulted in minimal success..&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;span style="color: blue;"&gt;A leading software organization wanted to surface and address organizational issues. A questionnaire was prepared for the purpose. It consisted of statements which utilized the Likert scale(strongly agree to strongly disagree) &amp;amp; open ended questions related to organization strength, weaknesses and issues that needed to be addressed.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;span style="color: blue;"&gt;The questionnaire was filled up quite enthusiastically by everybody. The analysis was done and the conclusions were presented to the entire group on an LCD screen.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;span style="color: blue;"&gt;Then the problems began………&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;span style="color: blue;"&gt;Small groups of personnel stated, “we do not agree with those findings”.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;span style="color: blue;"&gt;Anothmr group said, “The statements in the questionnaire were unclear”. This threw up doubts regarding the efficacy and validity of the questionnaire.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;span style="color: blue;"&gt;The OD exercise would have ended right there, had it not been for the data in the open ended questions.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;span style="color: blue;"&gt;The validity of the responses to the open ended questions, could not be doubted because the responses were consolidated without any changes.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;span style="color: blue;"&gt;The issues that needed to be addresses and the opportunities for improvement were given to the groups to address. Each group presented its solution to the organization issues taken up.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;span style="color: blue;"&gt;The organization leader gave his feedback to the solutions presented and selected the ones to be implemented.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;span style="color: blue;"&gt;Everybody was very happy that organization issues had finally surfaced and were being addressed.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;span style="color: blue;"&gt;The implementation was not worked out in detail and the responsibilities were not fixed.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;span style="color: blue;"&gt;The result was that the entire effort got wasted except for some perception expansion of organizational personnel, which may have impacted their day to day managerial actions.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;span style="color: blue;"&gt;In fact, the intervention could have had an opposite impact to the one intended. Rather than solving organization problems, it could have triggered an additional problem of a negative mindset against OD interventions in the organization.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;span style="color: blue;"&gt;What do we learn from this experience?&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;span style="color: blue;"&gt;If an organization wants to do an OD intervention, it needs to be mentally ready to put in an enormous amount of energy. An OD intervention should not be considered to be a one shot, quit fix activity.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;span style="color: blue;"&gt;A fundamental understanding of OD and what it entails among the organization personnel is fundamental to its success. A lock- in into the training paradigm is a sure recipe for failure. Utilizing the training mindset for an OD intervention will not work. The OD intervention does not end after the analysis has been done .That is where it starts. However in most cases the training program ends after the class-room experience. Therefore the entire focus as well as the quantum of effort required is fundamentally different in an OD intervention as compared to a training program.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;span style="color: blue;"&gt;The implementation plan without a responsibility matrix will never take off.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;span style="color: blue;"&gt;Subsequently, what happens is that nobody wants to discuss whether anything was implemented. When implementation comes up for discussions, everyone is little embarrassed and somehow the implementation plan gets pushed off the agenda. This is because everyone subconsciously realizes that the effort required is huge.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;span style="color: blue;"&gt;Thus, it slowly shifts to the bottom of the pile of files. Thus, after a couple years, a brave soul opens the file. By that time, the team leader has changed and the brave soul is told, “This is outdated data, it can not be used anymore”.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;span style="color: blue;"&gt;The OD intervention disappears without a whimper “What is the use of going through all that effort, if this is going to be the outcome?”&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;span style="color: blue;"&gt;Even if implementation occurs, it requires regular follow up and reviews. The OD intervention needs to be undertaken as a project. Thus, everything that is entailed in project planning and execution needs to be an integral part of the OD intervention.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;span style="color: blue;"&gt;Another key learning from this experience is the danger of using internationally accepted research scales such as the Likert scale in the diagnosing instrument. These scales may be considered valid in organizational and action research circles but to those personnel, who are not exposed to these instruments, they may not be perceived as reliable.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;"&gt;source :&amp;nbsp;&lt;a href="http://www.innovativetraining4u.com/protected_odart3.html"&gt;http://www.innovativetraining4u.com/protected_odart3.html&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;Winner's don't do different things they do things differently.&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/527860255561129206-1809643607707623934?l=vinayhrm.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://vinayhrm.blogspot.com/feeds/1809643607707623934/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://vinayhrm.blogspot.com/2012/01/challenge-of-od.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/527860255561129206/posts/default/1809643607707623934?v=2'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/527860255561129206/posts/default/1809643607707623934?v=2'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://vinayhrm.blogspot.com/2012/01/challenge-of-od.html' title='The Challenge of OD'/><author><name>Vinay Ravindran</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/09791033007139790630</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='24' height='32' src='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-FzpyinRAvMM/T1xYS1iyWPI/AAAAAAAAB9E/FLRTmeru5fU/s220/FIL01789.JPG'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-2MlrDPReyOw/TyaDTYtyIQI/AAAAAAAAB8E/NBfUuK9oQwo/s72-c/Tree-People-Final.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry gd:etag='W/&quot;CUYGSHs6eyp7ImA9WhRUGEw.&quot;'><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-527860255561129206.post-8075682972637176369</id><published>2012-01-28T20:58:00.001-08:00</published><updated>2012-01-28T20:58:49.513-08:00</updated><app:edited xmlns:app='http://www.w3.org/2007/app'>2012-01-28T20:58:49.513-08:00</app:edited><title>Cast your Vote Now</title><content type='html'>&lt;iframe src='http://polls.linkedin.com/vote/214361/zunud' marginheight='0' marginwidth='0' topmargin='0' leftmargin='0' allowtransparency='true' frameborder='0' height='250' scrolling='no' width='300' readonly='readonly'&gt;&lt;/iframe&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;Winner's don't do different things they do things differently.&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/527860255561129206-8075682972637176369?l=vinayhrm.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://vinayhrm.blogspot.com/feeds/8075682972637176369/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://vinayhrm.blogspot.com/2012/01/cast-your-vote-now.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/527860255561129206/posts/default/8075682972637176369?v=2'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/527860255561129206/posts/default/8075682972637176369?v=2'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://vinayhrm.blogspot.com/2012/01/cast-your-vote-now.html' title='Cast your Vote Now'/><author><name>Vinay Ravindran</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/09791033007139790630</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='24' height='32' src='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-FzpyinRAvMM/T1xYS1iyWPI/AAAAAAAAB9E/FLRTmeru5fU/s220/FIL01789.JPG'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry gd:etag='W/&quot;D04HRn48cSp7ImA9WhRUFUU.&quot;'><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-527860255561129206.post-3979174128368449908</id><published>2012-01-26T05:52:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2012-01-26T05:52:17.079-08:00</updated><app:edited xmlns:app='http://www.w3.org/2007/app'>2012-01-26T05:52:17.079-08:00</app:edited><title>Talent Management - Webinar</title><content type='html'>&lt;iframe width="420" height="315" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/r58q5PuoG6k" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen&gt;&lt;/iframe&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;Winner's don't do different things they do things differently.&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/527860255561129206-3979174128368449908?l=vinayhrm.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://vinayhrm.blogspot.com/feeds/3979174128368449908/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://vinayhrm.blogspot.com/2012/01/talent-management-webinar.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/527860255561129206/posts/default/3979174128368449908?v=2'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/527860255561129206/posts/default/3979174128368449908?v=2'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://vinayhrm.blogspot.com/2012/01/talent-management-webinar.html' title='Talent Management - 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&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue; font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue; font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue; font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"&gt;“&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"&gt;A manager who makes strategic decisions based on income statement metrics is like the captain of a boat who steers it by assessing the wake. ”&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: &amp;quot;Arial&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;sans-serif&amp;quot;; font-size: 8.5pt; mso-fareast-font-family: &amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;;"&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;Winner's don't do different things they do things differently.&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/527860255561129206-6639301705006125164?l=vinayhrm.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://vinayhrm.blogspot.com/feeds/6639301705006125164/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://vinayhrm.blogspot.com/2012/01/thought.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/527860255561129206/posts/default/6639301705006125164?v=2'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/527860255561129206/posts/default/6639301705006125164?v=2'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://vinayhrm.blogspot.com/2012/01/thought.html' title='Thought'/><author><name>Vinay Ravindran</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/09791033007139790630</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='24' height='32' src='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-FzpyinRAvMM/T1xYS1iyWPI/AAAAAAAAB9E/FLRTmeru5fU/s220/FIL01789.JPG'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-Gs6FdmlDnOY/Tx1SkfYR15I/AAAAAAAAB78/VqFMMTUs0xs/s72-c/image.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry gd:etag='W/&quot;CEAFR3szfyp7ImA9WhRVEEQ.&quot;'><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-527860255561129206.post-3779803504074156796</id><published>2012-01-08T22:34:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2012-01-08T23:05:16.587-08:00</updated><app:edited xmlns:app='http://www.w3.org/2007/app'>2012-01-08T23:05:16.587-08:00</app:edited><title>Common VIRUSES that prevent Change in Organization</title><content type='html'>&lt;div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-WE9_69xS5DM/TwqOKEG2ktI/AAAAAAAAB7w/op6H7T1RjGs/s1600/blogImage.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-WE9_69xS5DM/TwqOKEG2ktI/AAAAAAAAB7w/op6H7T1RjGs/s1600/blogImage.jpg" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"&gt;1.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: #cc0000; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"&gt;Over inform:&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"&gt;&amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp;Tell everyone then have a meeting. We make sure everyone has been informed,&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"&gt;&amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp;then &amp;nbsp; have a meeting which slows things down.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"&gt;2. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: #cc0000; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"&gt;Have it my way.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style="color: #cc0000; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"&gt;&amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"&gt;We don’t learn from each other; “not invented here” syndrome.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"&gt;3. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: #cc0000; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"&gt;Saturday morning quarterback.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style="color: #cc0000; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"&gt;&amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"&gt;We criticize everything, even before things happen.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"&gt;4. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: #cc0000; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"&gt;False positive.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style="color: #cc0000; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"&gt;&amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"&gt;We do “nice-talk” … overly kind even if we disagree. This leads to false positive.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"&gt;5. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: #cc0000; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"&gt;Concealed consensus.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style="color: #cc0000; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"&gt;&amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"&gt;We confuse participation with consensus. We think that everyone has to&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"&gt;&amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; agree before we act, so people say they agree when they don’t.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"&gt;6. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: #cc0000; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"&gt;Forward to our past:&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style="color: #cc0000; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"&gt;&amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"&gt;Look in the rearview mirror. We are so afraid of losing our heritage that we&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"&gt;&amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp;don’t change our culture; we are locked into our habits.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"&gt;7. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: #cc0000; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"&gt;Caste:&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style="color: #cc0000; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"&gt;&amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"&gt;Value by grade. We judge people by their title and rank rather than performance&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"&gt;&amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp;or competence.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"&gt;8. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: #cc0000; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"&gt;Turfism:&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style="color: #cc0000; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"&gt;&amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"&gt;My business vs. “our” business. We defend our turf sometimes to the detriment&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"&gt;&amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; of the overall organization.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"&gt;9. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: #cc0000; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"&gt;Command and control.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style="color: #cc0000; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"&gt;&amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"&gt;We like to make sure that senior managers run the company and&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"&gt;&amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; delegate responsibility; this keeps us from feeling a personal obligation to change.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"&gt;10.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: #cc0000; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"&gt; Activity mania.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style="color: #cc0000; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"&gt;&amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"&gt; We like to be busy; our badge of honor is full calendars, even if it&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"&gt;&amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; excludes thinking and results. We hide behind our “busy-ness”.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"&gt;11. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: #cc0000; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"&gt;Narcissistic competitiveness.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style="color: #cc0000; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"&gt;&amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"&gt;We like to win as individuals not as teams.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"&gt;12. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: #cc0000; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"&gt;Show me the results:&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style="color: #cc0000; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"&gt;&amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"&gt;Results rule. We like results – anyway, anytime, anyhow – we don’t instill&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"&gt;&amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; a process.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"&gt;13. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: #cc0000; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"&gt;Crisis jumping.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style="color: #cc0000; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"&gt;&amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"&gt;When in a crisis, we act decisively; then we wait for the next crisis to act again.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"&gt;14. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: #cc0000; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"&gt;Customer antipathy.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style="color: #cc0000; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"&gt;&amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"&gt;We don’t include customer criteria in our thinking; we are internally focused.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"&gt;15. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: #cc0000; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"&gt;Authority ambiguity:&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style="color: #cc0000; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"&gt;&amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"&gt;Not clear on accountability. In our matrix, we are not sure who is responsible&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"&gt;&amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp;or accountable, so no one is.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"&gt;16. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: #cc0000; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"&gt;All things to all people.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style="color: #cc0000; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"&gt;&amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"&gt;We have too many priorities; each good idea gets energy and attention;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"&gt;&amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp;we don’t say no; we are not focused on the critical few.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"&gt;17. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: #cc0000; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"&gt;Flavor of the month.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style="color: #cc0000; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"&gt;&amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"&gt;We jump from program to program; we don’t have integrated initiatives;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"&gt;&amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; and there is cynicism about “new” programs; we end up with concept clutter.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"&gt;18. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: #cc0000; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"&gt;Over-changed (full sponge).&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style="color: #cc0000; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"&gt;&amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"&gt;We have a capacity problem with too many changes going on at once;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"&gt;&amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; we are burned out and stressed out on change; we cannot let things go.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"&gt;19. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: #cc0000; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"&gt;Misalignment: Disjointed&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style="color: #cc0000; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"&gt;&amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"&gt;actions. We don’t see the big picture and see how our work fits with the&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"&gt;&amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; strategy; we tend to get lost in the details.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"&gt;20. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: #cc0000; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"&gt;Compliant deflector:&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style="color: #cc0000; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"&gt;&amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"&gt;Over-obedient. We wait to do what we are told and delegate&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"&gt;&amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; responsibility upward.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"&gt;21. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: #cc0000; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"&gt;Process mania.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style="color: #cc0000; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"&gt;&amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"&gt;We are so consumed by process that we don’t focus on results and outcomes.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"&gt;22. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: #cc0000; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"&gt;Kill the messenger.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style="color: #cc0000; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"&gt;&amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"&gt;We don’t share bad news even to a fault.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"&gt;23.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: #cc0000; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"&gt; Glacial response:&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style="color: #cc0000; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"&gt;&amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"&gt; Whose decision is it? We cannot get decisions made quickly.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"&gt;24. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: #cc0000; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"&gt;Perfectionism:&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style="color: #cc0000; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"&gt;&amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"&gt;Right way or no way. We have to have the perfect answer before we do anything.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"&gt;25. What have you done for me&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"&gt;yesterday? After a successful change, we only&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"&gt;&amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; want more.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"&gt;26. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: #cc0000; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"&gt;Over measure.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style="color: #cc0000; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"&gt;&amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"&gt;We measure everything, even to a fault. Our dashboards are way too complex.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"&gt;27. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: #cc0000; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"&gt;Under measure.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style="color: #cc0000; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"&gt;&amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"&gt;We don’t have indicators that track the important stuff; we measure what is&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"&gt;&amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; easy not what is right.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"&gt;28. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: #cc0000; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"&gt;Sustainability&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"&gt;. We do not sustain the changes we start.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"&gt;29. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: #cc0000;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"&gt;Going for the big win&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"&gt;.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"&gt; We look for the mega change that will solve&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"&gt;&amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp;all&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"&gt;problems vs. starting small.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"&gt;30. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: #cc0000; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"&gt;Skills or aptitude&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"&gt;. We don’t have the skills required for the future.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"&gt;31. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: #cc0000; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"&gt;Event vs. pattern.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style="color: #cc0000; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"&gt;&amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"&gt;Change is an event (do the checklist, attend the meeting), not a sustained pattern.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"&gt;32. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: #cc0000; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"&gt;Fire hydrant.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style="color: #cc0000; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"&gt;&amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"&gt;Everyone has to “mark” every initiative or project before it can be moved on.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;i&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: xx-small;"&gt;* Source : RBL Publications&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;Winner's don't do different things they do things differently.&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/527860255561129206-3779803504074156796?l=vinayhrm.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://vinayhrm.blogspot.com/feeds/3779803504074156796/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://vinayhrm.blogspot.com/2012/01/common-viruses-that-prevent-change-in.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/527860255561129206/posts/default/3779803504074156796?v=2'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/527860255561129206/posts/default/3779803504074156796?v=2'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://vinayhrm.blogspot.com/2012/01/common-viruses-that-prevent-change-in.html' title='Common VIRUSES that prevent Change in Organization'/><author><name>Vinay Ravindran</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/09791033007139790630</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='24' height='32' src='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-FzpyinRAvMM/T1xYS1iyWPI/AAAAAAAAB9E/FLRTmeru5fU/s220/FIL01789.JPG'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-WE9_69xS5DM/TwqOKEG2ktI/AAAAAAAAB7w/op6H7T1RjGs/s72-c/blogImage.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry gd:etag='W/&quot;CkMERH89cSp7ImA9WhRWEk4.&quot;'><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-527860255561129206.post-3252049023061392904</id><published>2011-12-29T23:33:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2011-12-29T23:33:25.169-08:00</updated><app:edited xmlns:app='http://www.w3.org/2007/app'>2011-12-29T23:33:25.169-08:00</app:edited><title>Executing on Innovation</title><content type='html'>&lt;iframe width="560" height="315" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/bQpNhZ1SndQ" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen&gt;&lt;/iframe&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;Winner's don't do different things they do things differently.&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/527860255561129206-3252049023061392904?l=vinayhrm.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://vinayhrm.blogspot.com/feeds/3252049023061392904/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://vinayhrm.blogspot.com/2011/12/executing-on-innovation.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/527860255561129206/posts/default/3252049023061392904?v=2'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/527860255561129206/posts/default/3252049023061392904?v=2'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://vinayhrm.blogspot.com/2011/12/executing-on-innovation.html' title='Executing on Innovation'/><author><name>Vinay Ravindran</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/09791033007139790630</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='24' height='32' src='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-FzpyinRAvMM/T1xYS1iyWPI/AAAAAAAAB9E/FLRTmeru5fU/s220/FIL01789.JPG'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://img.youtube.com/vi/bQpNhZ1SndQ/default.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry gd:etag='W/&quot;DUIEQXg8eSp7ImA9WhRXF0k.&quot;'><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-527860255561129206.post-5420017891017216918</id><published>2011-12-24T09:25:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2011-12-24T09:25:00.671-08:00</updated><app:edited xmlns:app='http://www.w3.org/2007/app'>2011-12-24T09:25:00.671-08:00</app:edited><title>Microfinance - A Sectoral Appreciation Paper (only Pointers) by Vinay Ravindran</title><content type='html'>&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-_1GeUsuwy5k/Tu9z8wFCWZI/AAAAAAAAB64/_jCEWNtEB9Q/s1600/microfinance.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear:left; float:left;margin-right:1em; margin-bottom:1em"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="304" width="300" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-_1GeUsuwy5k/Tu9z8wFCWZI/AAAAAAAAB64/_jCEWNtEB9Q/s320/microfinance.jpg" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;Winner's don't do different things they do things differently.&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/527860255561129206-179824877154455142?l=vinayhrm.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://vinayhrm.blogspot.com/feeds/179824877154455142/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://vinayhrm.blogspot.com/2011/12/talent-management-and-leadership.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/527860255561129206/posts/default/179824877154455142?v=2'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/527860255561129206/posts/default/179824877154455142?v=2'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://vinayhrm.blogspot.com/2011/12/talent-management-and-leadership.html' title='Talent Management and Leadership Development Model'/><author><name>Vinay Ravindran</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/09791033007139790630</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='24' height='32' src='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-FzpyinRAvMM/T1xYS1iyWPI/AAAAAAAAB9E/FLRTmeru5fU/s220/FIL01789.JPG'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-MAbW8OSB7sw/TuMeDcUPYEI/AAAAAAAAB6g/f5OuZ00yNSE/s72-c/Talent-Mgmt-Chart.gif' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry gd:etag='W/&quot;DUQMQHs-fip7ImA9WhRXE08.&quot;'><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-527860255561129206.post-6407712364052518853</id><published>2011-12-19T12:43:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2011-12-19T12:43:01.556-08:00</updated><app:edited xmlns:app='http://www.w3.org/2007/app'>2011-12-19T12:43:01.556-08:00</app:edited><title>4 Kinds of Motivation</title><content type='html'>&lt;div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-H52M_FKRCow/TuMdS3BKs6I/AAAAAAAAB6Y/6hHQHpZKBtE/s1600/motivation2.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-H52M_FKRCow/TuMdS3BKs6I/AAAAAAAAB6Y/6hHQHpZKBtE/s1600/motivation2.jpg" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;Winner's don't do different things they do things differently.&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/527860255561129206-6407712364052518853?l=vinayhrm.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://vinayhrm.blogspot.com/feeds/6407712364052518853/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://vinayhrm.blogspot.com/2011/12/4-kinds-of-motivation.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/527860255561129206/posts/default/6407712364052518853?v=2'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/527860255561129206/posts/default/6407712364052518853?v=2'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://vinayhrm.blogspot.com/2011/12/4-kinds-of-motivation.html' title='4 Kinds of Motivation'/><author><name>Vinay Ravindran</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/09791033007139790630</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='24' height='32' src='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-FzpyinRAvMM/T1xYS1iyWPI/AAAAAAAAB9E/FLRTmeru5fU/s220/FIL01789.JPG'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-H52M_FKRCow/TuMdS3BKs6I/AAAAAAAAB6Y/6hHQHpZKBtE/s72-c/motivation2.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry gd:etag='W/&quot;CkEMQH08cCp7ImA9WhRXEkk.&quot;'><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-527860255561129206.post-3863915084817683442</id><published>2011-12-18T12:38:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2011-12-18T12:38:01.378-08:00</updated><app:edited xmlns:app='http://www.w3.org/2007/app'>2011-12-18T12:38:01.378-08:00</app:edited><title>HR Renewal Model</title><content type='html'>&lt;div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-OLg1sS3c4S8/TuMa8lOVenI/AAAAAAAAB6I/ENNaoKXOONA/s1600/HR+Renewal+Model.gif" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="217" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-OLg1sS3c4S8/TuMa8lOVenI/AAAAAAAAB6I/ENNaoKXOONA/s400/HR+Renewal+Model.gif" width="400" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;Winner's don't do different things they do things differently.&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/527860255561129206-3863915084817683442?l=vinayhrm.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://vinayhrm.blogspot.com/feeds/3863915084817683442/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://vinayhrm.blogspot.com/2011/12/hr-renewal-model.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/527860255561129206/posts/default/3863915084817683442?v=2'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/527860255561129206/posts/default/3863915084817683442?v=2'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://vinayhrm.blogspot.com/2011/12/hr-renewal-model.html' title='HR Renewal Model'/><author><name>Vinay Ravindran</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/09791033007139790630</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='24' height='32' src='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-FzpyinRAvMM/T1xYS1iyWPI/AAAAAAAAB9E/FLRTmeru5fU/s220/FIL01789.JPG'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-OLg1sS3c4S8/TuMa8lOVenI/AAAAAAAAB6I/ENNaoKXOONA/s72-c/HR+Renewal+Model.gif' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry gd:etag='W/&quot;DkMCQXozfCp7ImA9WhRXEUg.&quot;'><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-527860255561129206.post-5414289863875978265</id><published>2011-12-17T12:41:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2011-12-17T12:41:00.484-08:00</updated><app:edited xmlns:app='http://www.w3.org/2007/app'>2011-12-17T12:41:00.484-08:00</app:edited><title>Ulrich Model</title><content type='html'>&lt;div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-0t8-ZzJtVXI/TuMbiDL-79I/AAAAAAAAB6Q/ooKz4xOBQt0/s1600/0140360603002.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="206" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-0t8-ZzJtVXI/TuMbiDL-79I/AAAAAAAAB6Q/ooKz4xOBQt0/s400/0140360603002.png" width="400" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;Winner's don't do different things they do things differently.&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/527860255561129206-5414289863875978265?l=vinayhrm.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='related' href='http://www.emeraldinsight.com/journals.htm?articleid=1628087&amp;show=html' title='Ulrich Model'/><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://vinayhrm.blogspot.com/feeds/5414289863875978265/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://vinayhrm.blogspot.com/2011/12/ulrich-model.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/527860255561129206/posts/default/5414289863875978265?v=2'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/527860255561129206/posts/default/5414289863875978265?v=2'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://vinayhrm.blogspot.com/2011/12/ulrich-model.html' title='Ulrich Model'/><author><name>Vinay Ravindran</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/09791033007139790630</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='24' height='32' src='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-FzpyinRAvMM/T1xYS1iyWPI/AAAAAAAAB9E/FLRTmeru5fU/s220/FIL01789.JPG'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-0t8-ZzJtVXI/TuMbiDL-79I/AAAAAAAAB6Q/ooKz4xOBQt0/s72-c/0140360603002.png' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry gd:etag='W/&quot;CEUHRXczfCp7ImA9WhRXEEQ.&quot;'><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-527860255561129206.post-3111819759007773292</id><published>2011-12-16T19:19:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2011-12-16T19:23:54.984-08:00</updated><app:edited xmlns:app='http://www.w3.org/2007/app'>2011-12-16T19:23:54.984-08:00</app:edited><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='work palce'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='great place to work'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='motivation'/><title>Motivation</title><content type='html'>&lt;div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-5wQ8tmJWs7g/TuwJnCWRfiI/AAAAAAAAB6o/2I0qHiiC9Jk/s1600/work-at-home-mom-scams+%25281%2529.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="212" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-5wQ8tmJWs7g/TuwJnCWRfiI/AAAAAAAAB6o/2I0qHiiC9Jk/s320/work-at-home-mom-scams+%25281%2529.jpg" width="320" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style="color: red; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: large;"&gt;" Motivation is about cultivating your human Capital.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style="color: red; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: large;"&gt;The &amp;nbsp;challenge lies not in the work itself , but in you , the person who creates and manages the work environment".&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;Winner's don't do different things they do things differently.&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/527860255561129206-3111819759007773292?l=vinayhrm.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://vinayhrm.blogspot.com/feeds/3111819759007773292/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://vinayhrm.blogspot.com/2011/12/motivation.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/527860255561129206/posts/default/3111819759007773292?v=2'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/527860255561129206/posts/default/3111819759007773292?v=2'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://vinayhrm.blogspot.com/2011/12/motivation.html' title='Motivation'/><author><name>Vinay Ravindran</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/09791033007139790630</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='24' height='32' src='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-FzpyinRAvMM/T1xYS1iyWPI/AAAAAAAAB9E/FLRTmeru5fU/s220/FIL01789.JPG'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-5wQ8tmJWs7g/TuwJnCWRfiI/AAAAAAAAB6o/2I0qHiiC9Jk/s72-c/work-at-home-mom-scams+%25281%2529.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry gd:etag='W/&quot;DkICQXk7fCp7ImA9WhRXEE8.&quot;'><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-527860255561129206.post-1568929330536914083</id><published>2011-12-16T00:36:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2011-12-16T00:36:00.704-08:00</updated><app:edited xmlns:app='http://www.w3.org/2007/app'>2011-12-16T00:36:00.704-08:00</app:edited><title>HR Value Creation</title><content type='html'>&lt;div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-RjjY9pqlooA/TuMaYT1PwxI/AAAAAAAAB6A/TYI3KdswO9k/s1600/hcg-hierarchy-of-hr-value.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="242" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-RjjY9pqlooA/TuMaYT1PwxI/AAAAAAAAB6A/TYI3KdswO9k/s400/hcg-hierarchy-of-hr-value.png" width="400" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;Winner's don't do different things they do things differently.&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/527860255561129206-1568929330536914083?l=vinayhrm.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://vinayhrm.blogspot.com/feeds/1568929330536914083/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://vinayhrm.blogspot.com/2011/12/hr-value-creation.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/527860255561129206/posts/default/1568929330536914083?v=2'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/527860255561129206/posts/default/1568929330536914083?v=2'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://vinayhrm.blogspot.com/2011/12/hr-value-creation.html' title='HR Value Creation'/><author><name>Vinay Ravindran</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/09791033007139790630</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='24' height='32' src='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-FzpyinRAvMM/T1xYS1iyWPI/AAAAAAAAB9E/FLRTmeru5fU/s220/FIL01789.JPG'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-RjjY9pqlooA/TuMaYT1PwxI/AAAAAAAAB6A/TYI3KdswO9k/s72-c/hcg-hierarchy-of-hr-value.png' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry gd:etag='W/&quot;CkAEQXo8fip7ImA9WhRQGUU.&quot;'><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-527860255561129206.post-6768698937128251388</id><published>2011-12-15T12:25:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2011-12-15T12:25:00.476-08:00</updated><app:edited xmlns:app='http://www.w3.org/2007/app'>2011-12-15T12:25:00.476-08:00</app:edited><title>Kolbs Learning Style</title><content type='html'>&lt;div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-x_8YK31DjiA/TuMXlgTAfFI/AAAAAAAAB5g/mcwOW-dGfY0/s1600/kolbs_learning_styles_busi.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="323" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-x_8YK31DjiA/TuMXlgTAfFI/AAAAAAAAB5g/mcwOW-dGfY0/s400/kolbs_learning_styles_busi.jpg" width="400" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;Winner's don't do different things they do things differently.&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/527860255561129206-6768698937128251388?l=vinayhrm.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://vinayhrm.blogspot.com/feeds/6768698937128251388/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://vinayhrm.blogspot.com/2011/12/kolbs-learning-style.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/527860255561129206/posts/default/6768698937128251388?v=2'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/527860255561129206/posts/default/6768698937128251388?v=2'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://vinayhrm.blogspot.com/2011/12/kolbs-learning-style.html' title='Kolbs Learning Style'/><author><name>Vinay Ravindran</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/09791033007139790630</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='24' height='32' src='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-FzpyinRAvMM/T1xYS1iyWPI/AAAAAAAAB9E/FLRTmeru5fU/s220/FIL01789.JPG'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-x_8YK31DjiA/TuMXlgTAfFI/AAAAAAAAB5g/mcwOW-dGfY0/s72-c/kolbs_learning_styles_busi.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry gd:etag='W/&quot;DkMGQXs_fip7ImA9WhRQGEQ.&quot;'><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-527860255561129206.post-1964586870946119176</id><published>2011-12-14T12:27:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2011-12-14T12:27:00.546-08:00</updated><app:edited xmlns:app='http://www.w3.org/2007/app'>2011-12-14T12:27:00.546-08:00</app:edited><title>Cone of Experience</title><content type='html'>&lt;div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-D0_ZayFjCE8/TuMX8EVua-I/AAAAAAAAB5o/GRsQJqoaufw/s1600/Cone_of_learning_export_11x17.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="293" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-D0_ZayFjCE8/TuMX8EVua-I/AAAAAAAAB5o/GRsQJqoaufw/s400/Cone_of_learning_export_11x17.png" width="400" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;Winner's don't do different things they do things differently.&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/527860255561129206-1964586870946119176?l=vinayhrm.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://vinayhrm.blogspot.com/feeds/1964586870946119176/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://vinayhrm.blogspot.com/2011/12/cone-of-experience.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/527860255561129206/posts/default/1964586870946119176?v=2'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/527860255561129206/posts/default/1964586870946119176?v=2'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://vinayhrm.blogspot.com/2011/12/cone-of-experience.html' title='Cone of Experience'/><author><name>Vinay Ravindran</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/09791033007139790630</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='24' height='32' src='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-FzpyinRAvMM/T1xYS1iyWPI/AAAAAAAAB9E/FLRTmeru5fU/s220/FIL01789.JPG'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-D0_ZayFjCE8/TuMX8EVua-I/AAAAAAAAB5o/GRsQJqoaufw/s72-c/Cone_of_learning_export_11x17.png' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry></feed>