Blog No. 33 – Business Culture: A Question of Money?
Several years ago now, a manager said to me: “...culture is just a question of time and money. There is a foundation behind our company that has previously excluded certain sectors from our services, for example armies and weapons companies. Now that we have major...
Blog No. 32 – Consciously Letting Go – Endlessly Important, Often Forgotten!
In private and professional life, there are certain topics that could fill countless books without the issue ever being put to rest. Letting go in general or from someone/something specific is one such issue. You might be asking yourself what this has to do with...
Blog No. 31 – The Counterpart to GAU – The Worst Acceptable Mistake (in Change)!
It’s crazy really. People just run headfirst into new projects, transformations or change in general, and want to redesign the whole world. Kick-offs are planned and carried out, new targets often established right away or seemingly impossible schedules set, and you...
Blog No. 30 – The Time Factor – Slow Down or Miss What’s Important
Austrian author Ernst Ferstl once said something beautiful that often springs to mind when I speak to people in the middle of a transformation: “Time we take for ourselves is time that gives us something in return.” Often enough, you will come across people that...
No. 29: A Plea against Floods of Data in Companies and for the Human Factor
At this point, I’d like to out myself as a passionate reader that normally differentiates between two types of books. On one hand, there are novels that are for entertainment and that you can usually devour within 2-3 days (especially on vacation). They’re usually...
No. 28: Formal or informal modes of address: a front for other issues?
“Groundhog Day”, I think when the same discussion reemerges in a company after being dormant for almost 1.5 years. Of course, it’s not really daily. But déjà-vu nevertheless. This issue is a recurrent conflict and emotive discussion about who should be addressed...
No. 27: Emotions in Business
“Can we please take a fact-based approach to the subject?” We’ve all heard those words. Mostly used by a male colleague and usually regarding a female colleague. This statement can mean different things. Sometimes the speaker wants the issue to be discussed in a less...
No. 26: About dealing with Chaos
This essay was written as an internal assignment of HMC and thus does not follow the classic HMC blog article format. Nevertheless, we would like to share our thoughts on this topic with you and hope that it will serve as an inspiration for you to go beyond that and...
No. 25: When the Head Shuts Down – Bravely Grasp Emotion and Instinct
“Let’s stick to the facts and make some progress” is something often heard in everyday working life in all kinds of organizations, projects and programs. It almost sounds like a paradox to us Change Managers. “Mangers are often speechless when it comes to emotional...
No. 24: Don’t Work against (Your) Resistance, but with (Your) Resistance
In any change process or transformation, there is resistance. It has always been so and it will most likely always be so in future. Unless humans change this as part of our evolution. A common fallacy is that I or people in general have to work against this...