Is an organisation a kind of ‘organism’ surviving in a changing environment? That metaphor has gained a great deal of currency over the years. However, organisational development innovator Dr Gervase Bush thinks it’s outlived its usefulness. It invites a “diagnostic”...
In complex open systems such as organisations, the classical logic of linear causality (in which a cause leads to a proportional effect) just doesn’t work. Organisational development and change are shaped by little interactions that have unexpectedly big effects. Tiny...
Organisational Development (OD) aims at healthy organisational change through harnessing a common value base and collaborative inquiry. In reality, however, organisational life, and change, turns out to be a lot messier and a lot more unpredictable. A traditional...
Having acted as a consultant to many different businesses I appreciate that organisations are living entities; and like all living entities, they usually tend to notice what’s become a problem rather than what doesn’t need fixing. From the perspective of Gestalt...