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The Illumination Project: Further Strengthening Relationships Between Police and Citizens
On June 17, 2015, at approximately 8:06 p.m., a young, white male who aimed to start a race war entered the historic black church in...
How RTSC Helped New York City Drop TB Incidence by 85%
In 1992 there was a potential worldwide epidemic of tuberculosis brewing in New York. Multiple drug resistant strains were beginning to show up – the kind...
Creating Dynamic, Energy-Producing Meetings
Richard H. Axelrod, Emily M. Axelrod, Julie Beedon and Robert W. Jacobs Leader to Leader, volume 17, no. 2, June 2006 We have a love-hate relationship...
Positively M.A.D.: Making a Difference in Your Organizations, Communities, and the World
(edited by Bill Treasurer) with Robert W. Jacobs and 30 other contributing authors Berrett-Koehler Publishers, Inc. (www.bkconnection.com) Paperback original— 188 pages (2005/ ISBN-10: 1576753123) M.A.D....
Jake on Work in Organizations Blog Posts
Mergers Fail More Often Than Marriage
What Can You Do To Avoid Becoming Another Negative Statistic Divorce rates vary according to country, educational levels and income, though generally hover between 40...
Silent Webinar
A few weeks ago I co-hosted a webinar with Sara Ismail-Beigi and Jonathan Thomas Meenach, two students from Bowling Green University’s Masters of Organization Development...
Five Questions to Ask in Measuring Your Change Effort’s Success
John Kotter wrote an article in the Harvard Business Review reporting that 70% of change efforts fall short of the objectives they were designed to...
How do you make change happen from the middle?
This question was raised recently in the "After Hours Chat Room" included in the Learning Series on Real Time Strategic Change I’m hosting. A little...