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Chris Rodgers Consulting Ltd was 18 years old on 20 August 2016.    Read More...

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In Informal Coalitions, I mentioned the oft-quoted statistic that upwards of two-thirds of planned change programmes end in failure. In this case, I used Breaking the Code of Change, edited in 2000 by HBS professors Michael Beer and Nitin Nohria, as the source of the claim.   Read More...

To make strength productive is the unique purpose of organization. It cannot, of course, overcome the weaknesses with which each one of us is abundantly endowed. But it can make them irrelevant. Its task is to use the strength of each man as a building block for joint performance.   Read More...

Conventionally, "performance management" systems focus on the so-called ‘people management’ bits of the overall process, with a heavy emphasis on numerical target setting, formal assessment of performance against targets, and the comparative rating and ranking of individuals for payment and/or other purposes.  However, the underlying dynamics of performance mean that the results achieved by individuals are heavily influenced by several other factors, including:   Read More...

I was reminded recently of a meeting I attended some 25 years ago, in the run-up to the privatisation of the UK Electricity Supply Industry. It was a regular get-together of a working group that had been set up to look at the new organizational practices required to operate effectively in the soon-to-be-competitive power generation market.    Read More...

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It’s official!  Water coolers increase staff productivity and morale. At least, that is, according to an email that the Company has received.      Read More...