Most businesses remain stuck in the industrial-age logic of capacity orientation. In complex markets, however, rhythmicity of work, flow and self-organization are vastly superior. Read Niels Pflaeging's inspiring article on the Red42 Substack!

Watercolor by Christian Rothmann , Berlin, 2006. The drawing is used here with the artist’s permission. Contact: art@rothmann.info In a daring new article, Niels Pflaeging draws upon the wisdom of authors Allan C. Bluedorn and Ernst Weichselbaum to review three cornerstones of time-orientation in work and organizations. Read the article on the Red42 Substack, free of charge!

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by Niels Pflaeging Over the past decades, since the 1980s at least, a number of trends, or movements have provided promising,...

by Niels Pflaeging How can we bring about intended change quickly, easily, reliably and without tears? How do we get the organizational...

by Niels Pflaeging The OpenSpace Beta handbook, by Silke Hermann and Niels Pflaeging Until seven years ago, I would have told you (and I...

The days of the sophisticated systems of variable compensation are over. by Niels Pflaeging *** Once upon a time, there was a bank that...

by Niels Pflaeging The Kotter approach, sometimes referred to as  Leading Change , was the best change management model of the 20th...

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Illustration: Pia Steinmann We tend to think that change is hard. I wrote about that common misconception  elsewhere  before. But one...

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