Archive for November, 2008

Reflections for My Mirror: Help, I’m Melting, Melting…

Wednesday, November 19th, 2008

This week, Schein’s chapter 16 about the conceptual model for change, with its unfreezing, restructuring and refreezing really spoke to me.  Firstly, I love the simplicity of the languauge with which Schein describes the whole change model.  I think the three steps are described so succinctly by those three words.  It makes so much sense that to undergo [...]

Reflections for My Mirror: Clash of the Subcultures

Thursday, November 6th, 2008

 
Ok, seriously, who out there has NEVER run into frustrations with their IT department??  In most organizations, it seems to be an ongoing battle.  Everyone knows that the IT folks are just “different” from everybody else.  They think differently, in bytes and bits, very analytically and logically – sometimes hard for us “right-brained,” creative types to [...]