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New Cartoon Book: Shermie the HR Hermit Crab

Harmonious Workplaces

Chicago, IL – November 29, 2024 – Harmonious Workplaces, an organizational development and change management consultancy, has released Shermie the HR Hermit Crab, an 88-page cartoon book that humorously tackles common workplace challenges.

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10 Signs Your Company Is Resistant to Change

Harvard Business

In their new book, Move Fast and Fix Things, Frances Frei and Anne Morriss outline five strategies to help leaders tackle their hardest problems and quickly make change. Often that’s not clear to everyone – because people have developed a number of effective ways to tolerate the problem instead of fix it.

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Storytelling in OD Communications

Harmonious Workplaces

Persuade and solidify commitment using stories of triumph and loss in organizational development. I recently asked my mentor, Alan Landers, to provide an article on practical interventions one can use in organizational development. My wife Lisa and I chatted this morning about various things on our minds.

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10 Pitfalls That Destroy Organizational Trust

Harvard Business

In their new book, Move Fast and Fix Things, Frances Frei and Anne Morriss outline five strategies to help leaders tackle their hardest problems and quickly make change. Their second strategy is to build — or rebuild — trust with your stakeholders.

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10 Beliefs That Get in the Way of Organizational Change

Harvard Business

In their new book, Move Fast and Fix Things, Frances Frei and Anne Morriss outline five strategies to help leaders tackle their hardest problems and quickly make change. They argue that most big organizational problems deserve a more urgent response — a metabolic rate that honors the frustration, mediocrity, and pain of the status quo.

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How the Geeks Rewrote the Rules of Management

Harvard Business

He is the author of the forthcoming book “The Geek Way: The Radical Mindset that Drives Extraordinary Results,” the subject of much of this “New World of Work” interview. His big idea is that “geeks” have created not only the technology that’s driving our future but also a management approach that defines contemporary corporate excellence.

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How Humble Leadership Really Works

Harvard Business

Organizational Development Book. There are a number of ways to do this, as I outline in my new book Alive at Work. This is how servant leaders create a culture of learning, and an atmosphere that encourages followers to become the very best they can. This was not inspiring on any level, to either party.