Michael Specht

An imperfect blog from Australia looking at technology, enterprise 2.0, management, Human Resources (HR) and other random thoughts.

Entries Tagged as 'Management'

Organisational change management

November 15th, 2007 · 2 Comments · Change Management, Management · 2,081 views

While there are lots of reasons for project failures, both IT and non IT, a major reason is poor execution of organisational change management. During the implementation of the project each individual impacted needs to come to terms with the change. Back in 2000 William Bridges and Susan Mitchell Bridges provided a good way of [...]

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What generation are you?

August 7th, 2007 · 20 Comments · Future, Management · 6,056 views

I have been posting a bit about the whole Generation debate/issue over the last few months, and so have a lot of people if the Google Trends graph is correct.
One such post is Penelope Trunk’s on What generation are you part of, really? Take this test. Which basically states your generation is not 100% defined [...]

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Emotion and the workplace

August 6th, 2007 · 2 Comments · HR Management, Management · 1,855 views

Just a short post on emotion.
Have employees who don’t have their emotions under control and you have a toxic (Update: Kevin rightly points out that toxic might not be the right word but to be honest as given the number of different emotional issue employee could face having people in the workplace who don’t have [...]

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IM how do you use it!

August 3rd, 2007 · 1 Comment · Communication, Management, New Media, Technology · 1,890 views

IM is finally starting to make it’s way into corporate Australia, I know we are slow off the mark! But this is starting to pose all sorts of issues. The Google Australia blog posted today about this very topic and it reminded me that after about 10 years of prolific IM usage where I currently [...]

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Returning from vacation

August 1st, 2007 · 1 Comment · Management · 1,405 views

Having just come back from vacation I have had recent first hand experience of the work overload when you return. Last thing you want is for your restful holiday to be a distant memory 24 hours after you return. CIO magazine has 5 tips on how to achieve the vacation you need. In summary:

Plan for [...]

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