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Type: Article

Title: 10 Ways to kill an organisation


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Description: Dr Leandro Herrero explains what can go wrong when managers work to their own scripts and cast their staff in unsuitable roles, as he talks us through the plot of his latest whodunnit

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  • Leadership Development
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Type: Article

Title: A choice of realities


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Description: Followers of popular TV shows know that simulated reality can be much more palatable than real life. And as the internet enables people to create an infinite number of alternative worlds, Dr Leandro Herrero ponders the value of the unreal over the real.

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  • Organisational Effectiveness & Innovation
  • Leadership Development
  • Human Collaboration
Type: Article

Title: A Matter of Trust


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Description: Trust is as important in your corporate world as it is in your personal life, but it’s a fragile structure, easily toppled by one careless move. Dr Leandro Herrero explains how to build and protect your valuable trust capital, through actions that have emotional rather than rational appeal

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  • Organisational Effectiveness & Innovation
  • Leadership Development
Type: Article

Title: A Strategy for all seasons


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Description: Business will always go up and down with market forces. The only way to ensure survival is to prepare for constant change by keeping morale high and structures flexible.

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  • Human Collaboration
Type: Article

Title: An example of Viral Change


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Description: More and more people are realizing that the only way to inject serious change into an organisation is by injecting a virus&

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  • Behavioural Change Management
  • Organisational Effectiveness & Innovation
Type: Article

Title: An introduction to Viral Change


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Description: An introduction to Viral Change(TM)

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  • Behavioural Change Management
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Type: Article

Title: Benchmarking deviance


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Description: Conventional wisdom says that organisations need rules, systems and standard operating procedures. But instead of punishing those who dont conform, managers should try to capitalise on the potential for change offered by deviance.

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  • Organisational Effectiveness & Innovation
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Type: Article

Title: Bowling regardless


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Description: Dr Leandro Herrero explains the importance of "league bowling" to the 21st century corporation - and how "bowling alone" may have a deleterious impact on its fabric.

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  • Organisational Effectiveness & Innovation
  • Leadership Development
  • Human Collaboration
Type: Article

Title: Broken windows management


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Description: In the same way that a neighbourhood with graffiti-strewn walls, abandoned cars and rundown buildings is vulnerable to further decay, companies with ramshackle management can breed organisational vandalism and worse...

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Type: Article

Title: Butterfly Management


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Description: It is said that the gentle fluttering of a butterfly’s wings in one remote corner of the world can create a tornado in another. Dr Leandro Herrero pins down the butterfly effect - when small actions can have big results - in organisational management.

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  • Leadership Development
  • Behavioural Change Management
Type: Article

Title: Changing the way we think about change


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Description: A paper detailing an alternative way to implement management of change in organisations by creating internal infections (new ideas, new practices) using the Viral Change(TM) mode. The theoretical basis and the practical applications.

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  • Behavioural Change Management
  • Organisational Effectiveness & Innovation
Type: Article

Title: Competing on 'the place'


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Description: It is tempting for companies to define themselves solely by what they do but competing on how they do it, and therefore how they are organised, may turn out to be even more important, suggests Dr Leandro Herrero.

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  • Organisational Effectiveness & Innovation
  • Leadership Development
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Type: Presentation

Title: Cordia EuropaBio Conv 2003


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Description: Organising Growth: revisiting the old question - "what’s a company for?"

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Type: Article

Title: Creating compatible dreams


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Description: If you want to make a merger work forget about any managerial preconceptions about the new company culture. The staff will have different ideas.

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Type: Presentation

Title: DIA Implementing KM Initiatives


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Description: Why implementing new KM processes fail and what to do about it.

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Type: Article

Title: Disruptive Ideas


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Description: Disruptive [management] ideas - according to Leandro Herrero’s new book of the same title - are those that have the capacity to create significant impact on the organisation by challenging standard management practices.

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  • Behavioural Change Management
  • Leadership Development
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Type: Article

Title: Disruptive People


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Description: Where are the disruptive people? In Leandro Herrero’s latest book, New Leaders Wanted: Now Hiring!, ’disruptors’ are one of the twelve kinds of people that he recommends you find and hire. He also recommend you worry about finding them a job afterwards&

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  • Human Collaboration
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Type: Article

Title: Embracing Change


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Description: Traditional change management rolls over companies like a tsunami, causing resistance in change-fatigued employees. How can you convince your employees to embrace the change and turn it into a success? Leandro Herrero can help with his book, Viral Change.

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  • Behavioural Change Management
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Type: Article

Title: Entrepreneurs at the gates


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Description: Large organisations have an awkward habit of setting their best people free. Dr Leandro Herrero suggests alternatives to the great escape.

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Type: Article

Title: eyeforpharma interviews Philip Watts on Viral Change


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Description: Philip Watts explains to eyeforpharma how Viral Change (TM) has worked in his organisation

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  • Behavioural Change Management
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Type: Article

Title: Forget Benchmarking


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Description: Are you a winner or an also-ran? If you’re too busy checking your productivity, quality and performance against those leading the field, Dr Leandro Herrero would like to point out that caution and innovation are mutually exclusive activities.

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Type: Article

Title: Forget the Culture, Change Behaviours -


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Description: How do you change something as ingrained as a company’s culture? Start with the underlying behaviours and change may come faster than you think.

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Type: Article

Title: He can't help it - it's his mental programme


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Description: Never try to teach a pig to sing, as the saying goes - it wastes your time and annoys the pig. Yet organisations try to do this all the time when they ignore employees2 individual temperaments, and mental programming.

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Type: Article

Title: How to change a country?


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Description: In this article, Leandro Herrero looks at the lessons we can learn from President Sarkozy’s approach to initiating change in France.

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Type: Presentation

Title: Human collaboration and virtual teams DIA 2005


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Description: Project management implications for human collaboration and virtual team management.

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Type: Presentation

Title: Human Collaboration beyond teamocracies


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Description: Human collaboration beyond teamocracies: what management can learn from social and "emergent" sciences.

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Type: Article

Title: In God We Trust Others Bring Maps


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Description: It’s a jungle out there... well, in airport bookshops at least. Dr Leandro Herrero explores the dense ‘flora’ growing on the shelves and finds that we’re a world of ‘self-helpers’ and ‘self-help’ gurus.

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Type: Article

Title: In sync and in health


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Description: Synchronistic behaviour exists everywhere in nature, and is mimicked within many organisations. But has synchronisation in business gone a step too far?

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Type: Article

Title: It's a small world


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Description: To find new ways of thinking and doing, you must escape the confines of your own little world and enter uncharted territory. But it may not be as hard as you think.

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