The digital revolution is provoking a major shift in organizational energies. Fundamentally this shift towards emerging or bottom-up solutions, responsibility, initiative and action is undermining top-down, centralized, leadership-driven hierarchic systems. As a consequence of this upheaval, most modern social, political and organizational systems need to break through Alice's proverbial mirror and embrace a totally new reality. Old-world paradigms need to be revealed, denounced, renounced, and a totally new collaborative frame of reference needs to be embraced. The purpose of this book on the many paradoxes that imprison our transformational capacities is to accelerate our personal and collective cultural shift.
This ongoing Kindle version is to be regularly updated, so you may want to come back to it in time. It is meant to be a challenging, sometimes confronting inventory of paradoxes inherent to the coaching, management, leader, HR,... professions, in the corporate world.
A word of caution, though, as this text is not meant to be politically correct or to reassure the coaches, managers, leaders and HRs that routinely identify themselves as change management professionals. This book is really meant to question our favorite change management illusions, simplistic concepts, standard products, buzzwords, intellectual thinking, and other time wasting tried-and-tested gimmicks that have not really brought about much change in the corporate world in the last fifty years.
So without taking anything personally, and without taking anything as true, be prepared to be challenged by the surprizing coaching and change management paradoxes this book presents. And one last piece of paradoxical advice from a coach: Never take any advice!
This ongoing Kindle version is to be regularly updated, so you may want to come back to it in time. It is meant to be a challenging, sometimes confronting inventory of paradoxes inherent to the coaching, management, leader, HR,... professions, in the corporate world.
A word of caution, though, as this text is not meant to be politically correct or to reassure the coaches, managers, leaders and HRs that routinely identify themselves as change management professionals. This book is really meant to question our favorite change management illusions, simplistic concepts, standard products, buzzwords, intellectual thinking, and other time wasting tried-and-tested gimmicks that have not really brought about much change in the corporate world in the last fifty years.
So without taking anything personally, and without taking anything as true, be prepared to be challenged by the surprizing coaching and change management paradoxes this book presents. And one last piece of paradoxical advice from a coach: Never take any advice!
