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The Wiggly World of Organization - Read all about it!

An ouline of my new book, The Wiggly World of Organization - Muddling through with purpose, courage and skill, is included on the Routledge website.  Publication is currently scheduled for 17 May.  

Publication is the result of great work by the team at Routledge.

Many thanks also to Dominic Mahony, for commenting on the emerging text and for penning the Foreword. Also to Chris Mowles, Cliff Oswick and Sharon Varney for their generous endorsements.

Gaslighting

""As stated in Wikipedia, 

"Gaslighting is a form of psychological manipulation in which a person or a group covertly sows seeds of doubt in a targeted individual or group, making them question their own memory, perception, or judgment."

In an important article on the Becoming International website, which is aimed at leadership and development for women, Alison Maitland calls this out and offers some practical help for those affected by this pernicious practice. 

I penned a relatively short comment in response to Alison's LinkedIn post on this, but the site's 'word counters' intervened and prevented my posting it in the form that I had intended.  So I scrapped the comment and decided to post my response on the blog.   So here it is...

The Wiggly World of Organization: A new possible...

In a recent post on LinkedIn, Jeanne M. Lambin suggested using Kenn Adams’s “Story Spine” as a way of provoking shifts in established patterns of thinking, and as a basis for “imagin[ing] a new possible”.

 

As she describes it, the Story Spine takes the following form:

Once upon a time...

Every day...

But one day...

And because of that...

And because of that...

And because of that...

Until finally...

And ever since then...

To get my mind off Derby’s defeat at home to Norwich(!), I thought I’d spend a few minutes setting out what Lambin calls the “What Does This Make Possible Story” for my soon-to-be-published (strictly non-fiction!) book, The Wiggly World of Organization.

So here goes...

Catch(Up)-22 - Reflections on organization and management

 

Last Thursday, it was 22 years since I moved from in-house manager to management consultant.  Reflecting briefly on this at the time, I decided to set down some of the main themes relating to organization and management practice that I’ve explored with managers during that time. 22 seemed like a good number to aim for...

Wiggly World of Organization - Webinar

I recently took part in a 30-minute webinar on the subject of The Wiggly World of Organization, with my friend Dominic Mahony.  Dom is Executive Chairman of Lane4 Management Group, who hosted the event.

A recording of the webinar is available on Lane4's YouTube channel, here.

OD Matters

For the past several weeks, work has been progressing on the production of a special, OD-themed edition of the online journal e-Organisations and People (e-O&P).

This has been put together in recognition of the upcoming 20th Anniversary of the formation of the OD Innovation Network (ODiN). The journal is now complete and it has been published today by the Association for Management Education and Development (AMED). You can access a copy of the entire edition here.