Area Breakfast for Consultants- Loop
Day: November 20, 2009
Time: 7:30 AM
Place: Chicago Consulting
8 S. Michigan Ave
Suite 3600
Chicago, IL
You are invited to attend this month's Area Breakfast for Consultants hosted at Chicago Consulting by the IMC Loop Chapter. This event is open to more than just IMC members. Don't be shy.
Please RSVP by 11/18/2009 to Anjali Seefeldt by clicking on her name or by calling (920) 475- 9496.
Hello Ryan,
ReplyDeleteI enjoyed the rousing conversation that took place at the meeting as well as getting to put faces on the ideas we learn about at Adlers.
Per part of the conversation I am taking the opportunity to peruse your blog and want to add a comment which I have been percolating on ever since our discussion on Thursday.
As you know we were discussing change, and creating the climate that embraces change in the work force. While at the meeting I learned much about the present, almost exponential, need and importance of change in all industries, but also the concurrent resistance and fear of unsettling that change infers. As I have thought about this, and my own reaction to it, both personally and globally, I continue to believe that the key is in framing a clear sense of the continuing stability of the existing structure in the organization/company/relationship while concurrently embracing the change that life requires to remain alive. The point is to make each of them, the stability and the change viable and vital parts of the equation. Oft times a frame changes the whole ambience of a picture, in this case, I believe, framing the stability within the change is the key to making it acceptable to the organization/company/relationship that is being subject to the needed change.
P Abrego
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ReplyDeleteI always appreciate the input on that discussion. I find that having... let's say "freasher" eyes on the subject. I find that I can be very flexible in my thinking. I can also be a little overlly-academic and less practical. I realize that most people like to cling to a structure or support and in larger organizations, I feel this is a way to keep a certain amount of control over people in the "lower levels". Executives and higher level managers should learn to embrace the ambiguity. Sometimes for change to occur a few people need to step outside of their structure(pay grade) and find something that has been just outside of their reach.
ReplyDeleteThis is a standard practice in smaller businesses that I think large businesses can learn from. It has gone out of practice because of a past history of a strong market base or people inside the company maintaining the status quo. I do believe that it is time for organizations to stop dragging their collective feet and just move