Queen’s IRC Facilitator Lucinda Bray is a management development consultant based in Dublin, Ireland. In the following piece, she discusses the chaos in work and organizational life being wrought by dramatic, prosperity-related change in her adopted country. Ireland has been dubbed Europe’s ‘miracle economy’ with good reason. In the past 10 years, the GNP has …
One of the most frequently asked questions in change management is how can we build genuine and inclusive support for change within our organization, and do it quickly? One answer to the dilemma of time versus wide participation is to use a large group whole systems change process. In this article, the author examines one …
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Queen’s IRC Facilitator Lucinda Bray is a management development consultant based in Dublin, Ireland. In the following piece, she muses on the brilliant cultural chaos of the European Commission workforce. The Head of the Department is Italian, who also speaks fluent French and passable English. Her deputy is from Finland, and has excellent English and …
Queen’s IRC Facilitator Lucinda Bray is a management development consultant based in Dublin, Ireland. In the following article, she talks about the gulf between European and North American ideas about leadership — and the hidden perils this presents for an HR consultant training executives in the Old World. Although there have been many books published …
The Great Divide: in Europe, North American management concepts often strike a sour note Read More »