Tom SpencerIn the last installment, we explored how management has gone through big evolutionary changes since its inception. Using Laloux’s colour categorisations: Red, Amber, Orange, Green and Teal to describe the shifts in time, we looked at how these organisations are structured, what inspired their transition to the next evolution as well as what the general […]
Why coming up with the right answer to a business problem often isn’t enough in a large organisation – and what you can do about it “WHY won’t people in this organisation realise that this new approach could make things so much better? Why won’t people implement this idea? This is so frustrating…” Creating meaningful […]
Change is a process IN the industrial age, change was seen as an event which could be managed: launch a new product, introduce a new feature, enter a new market. But this was never true. As the Greek philosopher Heraclitus rightly pointed out: “Change is Constant”. In the information age, change is now happening so quickly that […]
Consultants can help an organisation by supporting organisational change, accelerating information gathering and ensuring rigorous analysis FOLLOWING on from the previous post which considered whether consultants are just highly paid scapegoats, let’s consider a common consulting stereotype which sheds some light on where consultants add value. Consultants are people who borrow your watch, tell you what time it is, and then walk off with the watch. Attributed to Robert Townsend, this well known […]