Erika Jacobi, Organizational Change and Innovation Consultant, C-Suite Executive Coach/Advisor

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Is It Time To Rethink Your Organization Design?

The way we do business has dramatically changed in the past 30 years: We work in decreasingly hierarchical workplaces; we often interact in flexibly changing work-groups, projects, or team settings; we overly rely on technology;

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Topics: Organizational Identity, Business Transformation, Organization Design, Change Management

Behavior Change - Empowering People To Do The Impossible

When launching a new product, seeing a change process through, or simply trying to achieve a new goal, where the rubber hits the road is whether you can inspire new behavior in yourself and others – or not.

 

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Topics: Leadership, Innovation, Business Transformation, Change Management, Change Leadership

Organizational Storytelling: Told and Untold Stories of Organizational Change

Robert Galvin, former CEO of Motorola, once said he used to listen into daily life and conversations at Motorola as if they were a symphony. Entering the building, he would aim to understand how the musical masterpiece unfolded around him, noting the dissonances and the harmonies.

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Topics: Organizational Culture Change, organizational storytelling, Branding, corporate storytelling

Vulnerability - Facing the Uncomfortable Side of Change

At time when change is frequently considered the norm, the majority of literature and blogs seem to focus on how to facilitate organizational or personal change. The sheer number of such contributions seems to infer that change is easy — as if there was a method or a mindset that would fully guarantee success regardless of the circumstances.

 

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Topics: Personal Leadership, Business Transformation, Change Management

The Myth about Organizational Culture Change

Every day we read articles that claim that a company's culture can be systematically and predictably changed. Along the same lines, companies voice

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Topics: Organizational Culture, Business Transformation, Change Management

Implementing Innovative Processes as a Part of Your Organizational Culture: Why Allowing For Things To Go Wrong Can Sometimes Be So Right

A recent study discussed on Brand 1 shows that as the processes in most companies become more highly optimized, many organizations begin to more closely resemble bureaucratic administrations than thriving business entities.

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Topics: Organizational Culture, Strategy, Business Transformation

Robust Innovation Strategies: The Edison Effect!

We live in times where one technical invention pushes the next one off the market faster than many of us can keep up with. Products come and go but what makes one succeed and the other disappear?

 

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Topics: Innovation

Does Online-Coaching Work? Benefits of Face-to-Face vs. Video Conferencing

Coaching provides a unique opportunity to help you achieve and sustain the results you truly care about! But what do you do when your schedule is just crazier than ever and you spend more time at airports and hotels than at the office? Online Coaching via Skype or GoToMeeting conference can help.

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Topics: Online Coaching, Executive Coaching, Leadership Coaching

The Nature of Change

When we read about organizational change, it is oftentimes discussed as if change was that one thing that is easy to define, and – given the right people and methods – reasonably easy to master.

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Topics: Innovation, Change Management, Leadership Coaching, Change Leadership

Organizational Storytelling: Change Your Stories, Change Your Organization?

 

How Organizational Narratives Can Influence Organizational Life.

 

A powerful way to understand an organization is to look at the stories it tells about itself as a collective.

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Topics: Organizational Transformation, Innovation, Change Management, organizational storytelling, corporate storytelling

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