We spend more time in organizations than we do with our loved ones and friends. Yet we treat them as a parallel universe where the rules of being human only apply loosely. This is detrimental to people and organizations. Because we do this, we short-change ourselves and the companies we work for. Many people feel compelled to adopt a mask that leaves 70% of who they are out at the workplace. In doing so we collectively settle for mediocrity instead of a high-performance meritocracy. Time to crack the code. This book provides core technologies that you can learn and deploy to help you do that. In addition, it shows cases of how these were deployed in other organisations and it delivers a framework for diagnosing problems and using them to build a high-performance culture.
About the Author: Martijn has been fascinated by how relationships and dynamics work between people since his youth. David Ogilvy, his first mentor and one of the original "Mad Men", has strongly influenced his deep interest for future visioning and commercial entrepreneurship and was Martijn's first mentor. After working as a supply chain manager, business unit manager of large IT consulting firms and ending up in Post-M & A integration, he focuses his professional practice on human dynamics and change. As a facilitator he works intensively with the life changing work of David Kantor, a master family therapist from the US, and Martijn's mentor for many years. Martijn has developed a specialist practice in transforming human dynamics in the real business context of organizations. He is a gifted process and program designer for large- scale change initiatives and leadership journeys. He facilitates change with role-modeling that suits the context & needs of clients. He has a longstanding connection to national politics and is regularly consulted on renewal and change by some of the most senior people in Dutch government. While working with large corporate clients Martijn further developed his way of working, a school of change consulting strongly linked to Peter Senge's original MIT Center for Organizational Learning. As why consulting's principal, Martijn is responsible for the cutting edge innovation of its curriculum & practice. He is the editor of the Dutch edition of "Presence" by Peter Senge, Joe Jaworski, Otto Scharmer & Betty Sue Flowers and "Who Really Matters: The Core Group" by Art Kleiner. Martijn speaks six languages and works in Dutch, English, German and French. Martijn took a BBA in Rotterdam and has obtained a wide array of post-grad training, amongst other things qualifying as a psychotherapist in recent years. He is married and father to 3 children. He is interested in photography, cooking, traveling and is a voracious reader. He actively supports various charitable causes.