I recently completed the following article that defines the concepts of dissonance and consonance and their significance in the process of change.
Cognitive Dissonance Theory for Inspiring Social Change

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A few weeks ago, I talked about the basics of Requisite software developmen and organizational design affects the quality of software projects. Today, I will continue that, answering Paul’s questions about retoolling a mainframe shop to object-oriented programming (OOP).
Computer solution groups within companies have different names, often from when they started. Management Information [...]

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Enclosed is another article published (and reproduced with their consent) by the folks at Core International. This creation is from Ginty Burns and Rich Morgan, two of Core’s talented consultants specializing in Requisite Organization and Stratified Systems Theory. You can visit Core at their website www.coreinternational.com
Here’s the article.

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Do we really listen?
How are effective, or ineffective, listening skills affecting your organization, the people who are employed by the organization and the results they deliver? Expanded further how are your listening skills affecting your life?
Let’s start with the premise that we really don’t listen at all. Or, as a minimum at best we [...]

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JMMJ, a once frequent commenter on this site’s predecessor, has started studying Agile Programming. He has an interesting article on his first impressions of Agile methods, including how religious the entire “Agile Faith” is. He talks about the issues of complexity and Agile methods. All very interesting, especially in light of our discussions here about [...]

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For those who are interested, we have added the Advanced Wordpress Cache from Richard Galli. This should increase the speed of this part of the our site. Please let me know if there are any problems resulting from this.

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