Transformation is not just change. Change itself is not a goal. Change happens all the time. Indeed, because of our rapidly changing, complex world we are seeing the need to react, adapt and, most importantly, to transform our organizations. With transformation we want to become something else, something more suited…

A short and rather personal introduction to Frits Wilmsen’s Impeccable Leadership Approach When we hear the word “impeccable,” we think of something that is perfect. Something that has no faults or errors. Or someone who can do no wrong. And indeed, when we look into a dictionary we will see…

When developing or “transforming” our organizations, we need to look at different levels within the organization: individual, team and the whole. This article is about the individual level, about the members of the Creating Organization. …

We often would like to have different organizational behaviors — but we can’t change behaviors. We can change what leads to them. One of the most significant sources of frustration and complaint in organizations is individuals’ unconstructive and undesirable behaviors. …

and who am I? I’m a serious guy I only get a bit silly when I go to bed. I don’t laugh or cry maybe when I die I just might lighten up when I’m dead. life is hard … you know hurry up don’t go slow it’s a terrible task I…

Wanting to control is part of what we are. Is it possible to turn it into something beneficial for the greater good of ourselves and the planet? — I do a lot reading and thinking about what makes us human, about what causes our behaviors, about how we could do things better both by transcending apparent limitations and by recognizing the forces that drive us. …

For each change we make, and each tool, method and measure we install in our organizations, we need to ask ourselves, “Is it meaningful, useful, reasonable and appropriate?” — There are a lot more English words used in everyday German life than the other way around, but sometimes there is a German word that expresses a concept so concisely that it is adopted into English. Examples that come to my mind are angst, zeitgeist, weltschmerz, ersatz … and, hmm…

Effective organizational change needs more than new processes and tools. — There is a general tendency in organizations — particularly ones that are businesses— to start transformation initiatives by focusing on processes. This is not surprising, since this is the level on which value is generated for the customers or clients, which in turn makes money for the company. …

I remember reading Jeremy Rifkin’s The End of Work at the end of the nineties and feeling excited. Rifkin proclaimed that the arrival of a long-dreamed for utopia was near: that people would not need to work anymore*. But so far, we have successfully resisted coming anywhere close to this…