New Track: Bangoriana
I enjoyed doing this. I went for a bit of a groove and just played around a bit. Unfortunately, this kind of repetitive work seems likely to give Emma a seizure, so I’ll be using headphones for this sort of work! I’ll be releasing stuff like this under the moniker The Woodfrog Conspiracy. What I…
FIFA Needs Top To Bottom Overhaul If It Is To Survive
More on this story: http://www.theage.com.au/comment/fifa-needs-toptobottom-overhaul-if-it-is-to-survive-20150604-ghgduy.html “Now that the highest person in FIFA has stepped down, we are left wondering how wide and deep the corruption goes and whether there is any hope of recovery for FIFA. “In his speech before the FIFA Congress last week, held under a dark cloud of bribery and corruption charges against…
Taking A Naval Approach to Culture Change
More on this story: http://www.communitycare.co.uk/2015/06/05/taking-naval-approach-culture-change/ “Achieving culture change is more about getting managers to change the way they behave rather than frontline social workers. This is never an easy task, but lessons can be learnt from the Australian Navy. In 2011 it was ordered to improve leadership at every level following reports detailing inefficient and…
Cultural Climate and Culture Change
The core of the work of Hummingbird is that cultural climate is the key driver of behaviour, expectations, analytic frameworks, and quality of relationship within organisations.The most important dimension of an organisational culture might be characterised as its “cultural climate”, or, in shorthand, the personality of an organization. The cultures of organizations differ in the…
Thinking About “Culture”
“Culture” can be a very confusing term. People use the term in so many ways. At its most empty and rhetorical, “culture” can be used as a catch-all term to express positivity, and aspiration, without people actually saying what they mean when they use the term. At its most specific, “culture” can mean the everyday…
Self-care and Enclosure
Self-care isn’t impossible in culturally unsustainable environments of enclosure (difficult, even toxic working environments), but it does tend to be rendered unlikely, unless you make ready, strengthen your sense of presence and resolve, and clarify what’s important to you before entering the arena. When all around you is swirling, it’s important that you don’t start swirling…
Change the Culture of Domestic Violence & Be a “Vehicle for Social Change.” (Sport)
http://thehockeywriters.com/change-the-culture-of-domestic-violence-be-a-vehicle-for-social-change/ “No longer can we hide it or act like it doesn’t exist; there IS a domestic violence problem in professional sports leagues, and further more, a crime issue. Domestic violence, by definition, is a PATTERN of behavior which involves violence or other abuse by one person against another in a domestic context. And as…
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Response to “Innovate Now: Organize Change Efforts” (USAF)
The original post on culture change can be found here: http://www.patrick.af.mil/news/story.asp?id=123427098 Our response is below: Hi, It’s interesting that you say that “Attempts are made by organizations to include the use of managerial concept initiatives to eliminate unneeded defects and waste. However, more often than not, the initiatives fail to meet expectations, not due to…
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