Well, the semester has finally come to a close. It actually seemed like a short one this fall. I have to say it was certainly an enjoyable one. Having a fairly small class of people that mostly knew each other kept converation flowing and interesting. I feel like most of us are finally coming into [...]
I’ve always been interested in astronomy, space, NASA, imagining what lies beyond our wildest imaginations… In fact, as a kid, I watched Carl Sagan’s Cosmos series in the early 80’s pretty religiously. My dad was a high school science teacher and my stepmother taught astronomy, so the pursuit of scientific knowledge was certainly encouraged in [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
So when we broke into groups in class to talk about the Schein chapters and how we were going to articulate those concepts for concept map, Jess and I had chapter 8 - Assumptions About the Nature of Time and Space. I found some of this fascinating,a nd I spent some time thinking about time being monochronic [...]
Last week with a reading day rather than class, I did a bit of procrastinating and left most of my reading for this week before we went back. As I picked up the Schein book I hadn’t layed eyes on in over a week, I was afraid I wouldn’t be able to easily sink back in. [...]
Making my way through the chapters in the Schein book this week, I find my mind repeatedly drawn back to a paragraph in the introduction to Part 1. It seems like such a “Duh!” kind of thing, but I never really thought about how culture comes about in an organization and what impact leaders have on [...]
”Learning, then, is about making sense of the world through an existing frame. Development is about a change in the frame it self.” – Nancy Dixon, pg. 169
I really identified with Dixon’s Developing Managers for Organizational Learning chapter this week. Maybe it’s because I am still relatively new in the management field in my organization, [...]
Days later, I am still thinking about our poor clasmate (a.k.a. K-Spon) and his unfortunate blog episode. While I’ve always been a little wary of putting myself out there in cyberspace, I’m still quite shocked to learn that there are companies or people out there who have software capable of tracking down a webpage that mentions a [...]
Last class as we were discussing Dixon’s meaning structures, I had a lot of random thought racing through my head. They may come across as rather disconnected, but I am going to share them here…
As we looked at Dixson’s diagram of meaning structures – private, accessible, collective – I began to think of our classroom [...]
