Tag Archives: Culture Change
Organization Alignment
Your business success depends on how well you and your employees interact to ensure that everyone in all departments get what they need, when they need it. This fact is not a problem to solve, rather it is an honor … Continue reading
The Cost of Doing Nothing versus OD Results
Effective Organization Development (OD) is not a needless expense, nor is it a luxury. It is part of a sound strategy to meet or exceed business performance expectations. The cost of staying stuck at or near your current performance is … Continue reading
Leadership, Authority, and Emotional Intelligence – A Case Study from the PECO Nuclear Turnaround
Abstract: The following is written from a practitioner’s point of view. The hypothesis is that organizations that respect the role of emotion in human systems, in concert with other variables such as role, goal, and decision clarity, will meet or … Continue reading
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Tagged Authority, change management, Culture Change, employee involvement, EQ, Leadership, Leadership Development, Nuclear, OD, Organization Development, Robert P Crosby, Systems Thinking, whole systems change
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A future of Organization Development (OD)
Despite the ancient wisdom, “there is nothing new under the sun,” many OD practitioners and their customers seem to be addicted to finding what is “new.” This habit has been manifested over the past few decades through a constant stream … Continue reading
Lean Manufacturing
The key to lean is Action Research. Giving credit to Kurt Lewin, those on the front lines continually assessed the current situation, created actions towards a desired state, implemented, evaluated and recycled the process. Americans frequently ‘bought’ the product at … Continue reading
T-Group as Cutting Edge Post #5:
Implications for OD Practice The first major implication from what I have written above is that team and even some leadership development, not just T-group training, needs to be done with intact groups. This minimizes the problem of transfer of … Continue reading
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T-group as Cutting Edge: Today? Really?
An edited version of the following appears in a recent edition of the ODPractitioner The author, Robert P Crosby, is trained by the founders of Organization Development (OD). His first “Training-group” (T-group) was in 1953 followed by “Train-the-Trainers” with Lippitt, … Continue reading
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Tagged Culture Change, Lewin, OD, Organization Development, Robert P Crosby, T-Groups
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Leaders Lead…and Manage
It’s often said that leaders lead and managers manage. From my perspective, if a leader doesn’t “manage”…if they don’t organize the system to pull off their vision by essentially clarifying who’s going to do what by when and then holding … Continue reading
Leaders must add “structure”
I colleague recently asked: “I invite you to share more of your structure-based approaches that you have used to convert or help each type (theory X and theory Y). I would like to learn more.” To which I replied: The … Continue reading
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Tagged Authority, Culture Change, Gil Crosby, Leadership, McGregor, Theory X and Theory Y
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Examples of Work Culture Shifts
From: Finding fault and Blame To: “Make it work” – Take responsibility From: Language of “I’ll try” To: “I’ll do it” From: Low trust and morale To: High trust and morale From: Low concern for safety … Continue reading
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