BetaCodex Network research paper No. 24, "Slave to the Rhythm" Beta and Lean: It's a powerful combination. Most of what has been done in...

The field of org design is stuck in a conceptual dead-end: As long as it refuses to acknowledge the distinction between Periphery and...

A few weeks ago, Red42 started a new, magazine-like web presence on the Substack platform . Niels Pflaeging curates the presence, adding...

During the warm up to a joint podcast session, management icon Peter Block made a comment about BetaCodex heroes W. Edwards Deming and...

Rijon Erickson and Niels Pflaeging spoke with bestseller author Peter Block about humanity at work, about how to change the world, and...

Screenshot from Andrea Heym's LinkedIn article Some of you who have been in touch with the BetaCodex and the network for some time may be...

In a new LinkedIn article and news post, Andrea Heym, general manager at Bayer Bitterfeld , a 500-people unit producing pharmaceuticals...

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...

From: Organize for Complexity. Illustration by Pia Steinmann Culture is part of an organization's memory. One could also say that an...

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

Illustration: from the Complexitools book (Pia Steinmann) Towards the end of last year, I conducted a series of client workshops for...

Illustration: Pia Steinmann It would be really nice if such a thing as a "status quo" existed. Granted: There's a rock band by that name...

Illustration: Pia Steinmann In our consulting work with Red42, my colleague  Silke Hermann  and I deliver workshop sessions and...

About a week has passed since our current Beta transformation client "went Live" with its decentralized  Cell Structure Design  at the...

In the OpenSpace Beta approach, two OpenSpace meetings are used. What you see in the photo is a session grid for a client's OpenSpace...

You may have overlooked the news back then: In 2018, or about 6 years ago,  Change Management  died. It is fair to say that Change...