Speaker Jaap Peters

Expert, Writer / Author

45 min

DE, NL, EN

Strategy,
Change management,
Remote Work,
Behavior change

Inspire,
Dealing with change,
Inform

Trump states, "Europe must learn to stand on its own two feet. The same applies to our handling of the concept of "the organization," Beyond managing, there is also a whole world to explore. After all, you can't shake hands with organizations. Time to wake up. You don't work in an organization, the organization works in you! And then who or what is the tool? Jaap shows how New European Organizing (NEO after The Matrix)) offers real alternatives - with understated humor and razor-sharp insights.

Jaap became best known for his book 'Intensive Human Husbandry' (a.o. via Buitenhof). Organizations generally refer to employees as "Human Resources. As if employees are the raw material. In the movie The Matrix, you could choose between the red pill or the blue pill. No matter how many policy plans you 'concretely' throw at it, the organization remains a castle in the air. Which reorganization do you work for, by the way? Just changing your mind is often enough. Takes guts!
Jaap shows what we already know deep inside, but could rarely find words for. He turns your thinking about 'organizations' completely upside down. Time to wake up.

Areas of expertise:
- Change Science
- Organization Science
- Leadership (in two words) and bege-leadership
- Chaos and Complexity Theory

Books:
- Nothing new under the sun and other coincidences (1997)
- Intensive Human Husbandry (2004: 25,000 copies sold))
- Which reorganization do you work at? (2009)
- The (blue) Rhineland Booklet (2009, 18 printings, 35,000 copies sold)
- New times, organize differently (best-selling e-book in 2014 and 2015)
- Beyond the rake (2016)
- The Great Rhineland Booklet (2019)
- New European Organizing (2021)
- Rhineland Organizing (textbook, 2021)

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