Tag Archives: Systems
Work culture as a restraining or a driving force in change management
A colleague posted about the importance of effective change management in concert with project management. He lives and works in an country with an authoritarian government. According to Kurt Lewin (1890 – 1947), broadly acknowledged as the founder of organization … Continue reading
Posted in Alignment, Change Management, Cross-Functional Work, Culture Change, Gilmore Crosby, Groupdynamics, Leadership, Matrixed Work, Organization Development, Robert P Crosby, Systems Thinking
Tagged Authority, Change, change management, Culture, Engagement, Implementation, Leadership, Nuclear, OD, Performance, Systems, Systems Thinking, vision
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OD Soup a la Crosby
An OD student recently asked about favorite OD models on a social media site. Here, with a pinch of pepper, is my reply: I appreciate Edwin Friedman for putting leadership into a systems perspective. It’s not a visual model. It’s … Continue reading
Leadership and Human Systems – How Authority Relationships Influence Behavior
Edwin Friedman This is an expansion of an earlier post: A colleague in the nuclear industry recently asked my opinion of the role “boss stress” plays in nuclear safety culture. Research (study after study indicates that the boss-subordinate relationship is … Continue reading
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Tagged Authority, Culture, Friedman, Gil Crosby, Leadership, Nuclear safety culture, Systems, Systems Thinking
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Organizational Culture
A colleague wrote: I quote from page 23 of the Chapter “No mere Ape’ in *Ramachandran VS (2010) The Tell-Tale Brain ? Unlocking the Mystery of Human Nature, Random House India.* “….By hyper-developing the mirror-neuron system, evolution in fact turned … Continue reading
More Thoughts on Authority
A colleague wrote today on our list serve, prompting the following thoughts: Gil, I liked the thoughts you offered in your note below. Thanks for taking the time to share them. Your comment: “Because of human reactions to authority, it … Continue reading
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