Jeff Evans Articles

Managing Marginality The Internal Consultants Dilemma - Click To Read Article
Internal and external consultants use many of the same techniques and tools, do similar work, but face very different challenges. Internal consultants work in a unique position. Their job role is to consult to the organization for which they work. It is not easy to be, at the same time, a part of an organization and function as detached and independent. Each position on the consulting continuum places different pressures on the internal than the external, making them either more or less a part of the organization. Couple with those pressures that the internal has a boss whose role is even more clearly linked to the organizational structure, politics, and rewards structure, and you have a set of forces effectively pulling the internal in different directions. Managing this position becomes paramount to success for the internal.

Lessons Learned from eCommerce - Click To Read Article
The growth and frequent failures of e-commerce ventures has served to write new chapters in the history of business and organization. Whether you were actively involved in these ventures or just watching interestedly, you are probably aware of the debates that occurred over more traditional rules of business models and emerging internet rules, in which speed and opportunity was key.

Lead Change With A Leadership Network - Click To Read Article
If you want to sponsor a lasting change, search out the people who will be visible leading learners — people to cooperate in the work of creating a new vision and living out the changes in their behaviors. We’ve come to call this virtual group a change leadership network, a critical mass of natural leaders aligned with the new future. These people will be the front-runners in understanding the implications of the change for their organizations and thinking through how their work systems will need to be impacted. Your changeleadership challenge is to form and nurture this phenomenon.

Building Learning Organizations How Educational Leaders Roles Must Change - Click To Read Article
How the role of education leaders needs to change in the face of a changing corporate world.

21 Pairs of C Words to Consider - Click To Read Article
A casual comment by a presenter at a conference we were facilitating led us to quickly build these word pairs for you to consider. Think about each pair, the tension between them, the relative merits of each, and which you value more (and apply) in different situations. We believe you will find this exercise as enlightening as we did.


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