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Entries Tagged as 'Adapting'

Going Native

November 18th, 2009 · No Comments

by Dwayne Phillips To provide a system for users, we need to know the users. How can we know the users without being a user and forgetting about the providers? I once worked a couple of years in an American Embassy in Africa. A constant concern at the U.S. Department of State was that its […]

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Tags: Adapting · Culture · Differences · Government · Management

Adapting and Adaptability

November 16th, 2009 · No Comments

by Dwayne Phillips Situations change and people adapt to those changes. Has adapting to chance taken away your  ability to adapt? Change is constant Okay, that is neither original nor brilliant. It does, however, describe my experiences. Groups of people adapt Another observation that is neither original nor brilliant. What many people fail to observe […]

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Tags: Adapting · Change · General Systems Thinking