Mario Gastaldi (mariogastaldi)'s Public Profile in the Diigo Community

I am interested in Change Management,Facilitation,Leadership Development,Strategic Planning,Intersection between people and technologies,social web,social software and organizations,enterprise 2.0. My favorite music are Blues!.

Member since Aug 10, 2008, follows 21 people, 3 public groups, 304 public bookmarks (1063 total).

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Gary Hamel: Outrunning Change -- the CliffsNotes Version - Gary Hamel’s Management 2.0 - WSJ on 2009-11-04
- the average business book is just a Harvard Business Review article with extra examples, and the average HBR article is a good PowerPoint presentation with extra prose.
- There’s probably no organizational attribute that’s more important today than adaptability. In our topsy turvy world, every organization is teetering on the brink of irrelevance, and unless it can change as fast as change itself, it will soon tumble off the ledge
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- - or they get eviscerated, when well-informed customers use their knowledge to slash away at margins.
  - “The future has already happened, it’s just unequally distributed.” To see it coming, managers have to pay attention to nascent technologies, unconventional competitors and un-served customer groups.
  - Regard every belief as a hypothesis. The biggest barriers to strategic renewal are almost always top management’s unexamined beliefs.
  - In an age of unprecedented change, it’s important to regard everything you believe about your company’s business model, its competitors and its customers as mere hypotheses,
  - So now more than ever, humility is a virtue.
  - Encourage debate and dialectic thinking. Diversity is of little value if senior executives value conformance and alignment above all else. One of the reasons that McKinsey & Company* has remained at the top of the consulting game for so many decades is that it encourages internal dissent.
The Martial Art of Difficult Conversations // Current on 2009-11-02
- Ask questions. I would ask open ended, exploratory questions. Who, what, when, where, how, why, etc. Questions that would clarify what she was saying and feeling. Questions that would help me unpack the situation from her perspective. I would stay away from leading questions and statements that pretended to be questions but wouldn't fool anyone, like "You don't actually believe that, do you?"
  
  Actually listen. I would shut up and hear what she had to say. And I would avoid thinking about anything except what she was saying. I would also try to hear what she wasn't saying but was implying, the desires, fears, and assumptions that were behind what she was saying.
  
  Repeat and summarize. I would recap what I heard, trying to use the same words she did. I would also summarize what I heard and check with her to see if I understood her correctly. If she told me I didn't get it, I wouldn't ask her to repeat herself because, well, she would and I'd hear the whole thing over again. What I really wanted to know is what I got wrong. So I'd ask her what I missed. Once she told me, I'd repeat that part again and ask her if I got it right this time.
  
  Most importantly, I wouldn't bother to defend our decision until her anger was diffused. And I picked a sign for myself: once she took a deep breath and relaxed her shoulders, I'd make my point.
- is because I had a minute to think.
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- - Ask a question.
Itay Talgam: Lead like the great conductors | Video on TED.com on 2009-10-30
Who Killed Our Business? - Associated Content - associatedcontent.com on 2009-10-25
- creativity sessions where the objective is to conceive them
- 'Who killed our business?' Get small teams to imagine entirely new business models that could deliver the benefits that your customers want. Each team has to present a scenario of a force so powerful that it could completely replace you
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- - Starting with a blank piece of paper and none of the encumbrances that limit your organization they design a super competitor. They are encouraged to go to extremes and to think completely outside the current model
Is Collective Intelligence Like Individual Intelligence on 2009-10-21
- "collective intelligence
Appreciative Inquiry: better ways of doing the Design stage « AI Consulting Ltd – Positive Engagement Through Appreciative Inquiry on 2009-10-16
- possibility statement
- The Propositions can then act as a bridge into the more detailed work of the Design stage, as participants collaborate in designing what has to be in place to make the various elements of the Dream actually happen
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- - For each table of 4-8 people in the AI summit, we give them a blank fishbone diagram on a sheet of flipchart paper.
  - n the ‘head’ of the diagram, they write the part of the Dream that they want to bring into reality.
  - In the boxes at the end of each ’spine’ of the fishbone, they write an area for which action needs to be taken to make the Dream happen.
  - Along each spine of the fishbone, participants place post-it notes with the actions that have to be taken, or the things that have to be in place, to make that area support the Dream goal.
  - Our tip is to use a different colour post-it for each area, and use small notes so there’s enough room for them on the diagram.
  - The process will go faster if smaller groups of participants take an area or two each
  - but make sure everyone gets to see the end results for each area, to make sure nothing is missed.
  - At this point the design elements have been identified, but dependencies have not, and the elements will probably not be in time order
  - stick several sheets of flipchart paper to a wall, and establish a series of horizontal lines – one for each area on the ’spines’ of the fishbone
  - Participants can then transfer the sticky note for each element they have identified onto a timeline, in the order dictated by any dependencies that they identify between the design elements.
Top 10 Apps for Scheduling a Meeting Online - ReadWriteEnterprise on 2009-10-14
Lip-Sticking: Resist "Social Media Haystacking" on 2009-10-13
Themes and Plugins For Extreme WordPress Functionality | W3Avenue on 2009-10-11
Venyo – build your reputation on 2009-10-09

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