Allon Shevat אלון שבט
@allonshevat.bsky.social
Avid reader, dog lover, centrist, secular, OD consultant, blogger, father of Amir and Sarai, grandfather of מאיה, מיקה, רונה, יונתן ודניאל. Not patient but getting better.
Trilingual but screw up m and f in French. I detest Netanyahu.
Trilingual but screw up m and f in French. I detest Netanyahu.
Looking bad from time to time is nothing to fear. An OD consultant often looks like sh-- when momentum is lost.
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Navigating Stuck OD Interventions: My Approach
Organizational Development is not an exact science. Mais non! Maintaining the momentum of an OD intervention can feel like navigating a twisted labyrinth or running uphill in the heat—sometimes we gai...
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January 12, 2026 at 2:36 PM
Looking bad from time to time is nothing to fear. An OD consultant often looks like sh-- when momentum is lost.
www.blog.gr2010.com/navigating-s...
www.blog.gr2010.com/navigating-s...
Don’t try to “fix” organizational pathology. Focus on mitigating it.
This approach has guided my work for over 45 years and has served clients well. No new fad, framework, or tech revolution changes this truth.
www.blog.gr2010.com/treat-dont-c...
This approach has guided my work for over 45 years and has served clients well. No new fad, framework, or tech revolution changes this truth.
www.blog.gr2010.com/treat-dont-c...
The limits of “Cure” in Organizational Development
Lately, I’ve been immersed in the work of Philippe Bourgois, particularly his research on homeless heroin addicts. This is a natural continuation of my long-standing sociological and political interes...
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January 8, 2026 at 8:50 AM
Don’t try to “fix” organizational pathology. Focus on mitigating it.
This approach has guided my work for over 45 years and has served clients well. No new fad, framework, or tech revolution changes this truth.
www.blog.gr2010.com/treat-dont-c...
This approach has guided my work for over 45 years and has served clients well. No new fad, framework, or tech revolution changes this truth.
www.blog.gr2010.com/treat-dont-c...
The Organizational Dictionary: Deciphering Culture, Driving Clarity
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The Organizational Dictionary: Deciphering Culture, Driving Clarity
Language has many uses. It can clarify, divert, focus and defocus. An organization’s genetic code (including strengths and pathologies) can be hidden via way words are used. A consultant who knows how...
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December 24, 2025 at 10:46 AM
The Organizational Dictionary: Deciphering Culture, Driving Clarity
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The business cycle rewards short-term promises—even insane ones. Everyone makes money during the climb, and the crash is treated as “circumstantial.
www.blog.gr2010.com/consulting-t...
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Consulting to Over-Committed Organizations: Why They Crash, Why They Thrive, and What Consultants Must Do
Consulting to Over-Committed Organizations: Anatomy of Failure, Survival, and Intervention Organizations frequently commit to delivering products, features, or projects far beyond their actual capacit...
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December 22, 2025 at 7:27 AM
The business cycle rewards short-term promises—even insane ones. Everyone makes money during the climb, and the crash is treated as “circumstantial.
www.blog.gr2010.com/consulting-t...
www.blog.gr2010.com/consulting-t...
The most damaging trust failures in remote teams rarely involve interpersonal conflict. They involve control.
www.blog.gr2010.com/on-trust-pow...
www.blog.gr2010.com/on-trust-pow...
On trust, power and designing for transparency
Remote and virtual teams are no longer an experiment; they are a structural reality of modern organizations. Distributed work brings clear advantages — access to global talent, continuous operations, ...
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December 19, 2025 at 1:59 PM
The most damaging trust failures in remote teams rarely involve interpersonal conflict. They involve control.
www.blog.gr2010.com/on-trust-pow...
www.blog.gr2010.com/on-trust-pow...
Capable people watch opportunities slip away—not because they lack skill, but because they lack political awareness. Meanwhile, others with sharper political instincts seem to thrive, sometimes despite modest competence.
www.blog.gr2010.com/welcome-to-t...
www.blog.gr2010.com/welcome-to-t...
Welcome to the Organizational Zoo: A Field Guide to Office Politics
Most of us begin our careers believing that talent, motivation, and hard work will naturally lead to success. And then reality intervenes. Again and again, capable people watch opportunities slip away...
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December 18, 2025 at 2:33 PM
Capable people watch opportunities slip away—not because they lack skill, but because they lack political awareness. Meanwhile, others with sharper political instincts seem to thrive, sometimes despite modest competence.
www.blog.gr2010.com/welcome-to-t...
www.blog.gr2010.com/welcome-to-t...
Capable people watch opportunities slip away—not because they lack skill, but because they lack political awareness. Meanwhile, others with sharper political instincts seem to thrive, sometimes despite modest competence.
www.blog.gr2010.com/welcome-to-t...
www.blog.gr2010.com/welcome-to-t...
Welcome to the Organizational Zoo: A Field Guide to Office Politics
Most of us begin our careers believing that talent, motivation, and hard work will naturally lead to success. And then reality intervenes. Again and again, capable people watch opportunities slip away...
www.blog.gr2010.com
December 18, 2025 at 2:33 PM
Capable people watch opportunities slip away—not because they lack skill, but because they lack political awareness. Meanwhile, others with sharper political instincts seem to thrive, sometimes despite modest competence.
www.blog.gr2010.com/welcome-to-t...
www.blog.gr2010.com/welcome-to-t...
Reposted by Allon Shevat אלון שבט
The Mikado, Gilbert & Sullivan Opera Company, Little List
BY FAR, the best performance of Little List I have ever seen (and I have seen MANY)
youtu.be/TW_Ukl71OH4?... via @YouTube
BY FAR, the best performance of Little List I have ever seen (and I have seen MANY)
youtu.be/TW_Ukl71OH4?... via @YouTube
The Mikado, Gilbert & Sullivan Opera Company, Little List
YouTube video by Gilbert & Sullivan Festival
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August 19, 2025 at 7:33 PM
The Mikado, Gilbert & Sullivan Opera Company, Little List
BY FAR, the best performance of Little List I have ever seen (and I have seen MANY)
youtu.be/TW_Ukl71OH4?... via @YouTube
BY FAR, the best performance of Little List I have ever seen (and I have seen MANY)
youtu.be/TW_Ukl71OH4?... via @YouTube
Verbal tapdancing in organizations
www.blog.gr2010.com/consulting-t...
www.blog.gr2010.com/consulting-t...
Consulting to Over-Committed Organizations: Why They Crash, Why They Thrive, and What Consultants Must Do
Consulting to Over-Committed Organizations: Anatomy of Failure, Survival, and Intervention Organizations frequently commit to delivering products, features, or projects far beyond their actual capacit...
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December 13, 2025 at 9:19 AM
Verbal tapdancing in organizations
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www.blog.gr2010.com/consulting-t...
Middle managers are trapped. They must:
protect employees, yet
appear aligned with senior leadership.
They become translators between fantasy & reality. The fantasy is way way up in the clouds, and the reality can cold, bitter &overwhelming.
www.blog.gr2010.com/consulting-t...
protect employees, yet
appear aligned with senior leadership.
They become translators between fantasy & reality. The fantasy is way way up in the clouds, and the reality can cold, bitter &overwhelming.
www.blog.gr2010.com/consulting-t...
Consulting to Over-Committed Organizations: Why They Crash, Why They Thrive, and What Consultants Must Do
Consulting to Over-Committed Organizations: Anatomy of Failure, Survival, and Intervention Organizations frequently commit to delivering products, features, or projects far beyond their actual capacit...
www.blog.gr2010.com
December 12, 2025 at 8:09 PM
Middle managers are trapped. They must:
protect employees, yet
appear aligned with senior leadership.
They become translators between fantasy & reality. The fantasy is way way up in the clouds, and the reality can cold, bitter &overwhelming.
www.blog.gr2010.com/consulting-t...
protect employees, yet
appear aligned with senior leadership.
They become translators between fantasy & reality. The fantasy is way way up in the clouds, and the reality can cold, bitter &overwhelming.
www.blog.gr2010.com/consulting-t...
Culture matters.
Risk-tolerant cultures embrace aggressive commitments more easily.
www.blog.gr2010.com/consulting-t...
Risk-tolerant cultures embrace aggressive commitments more easily.
www.blog.gr2010.com/consulting-t...
Consulting to Over-Committed Organizations: Why They Crash, Why They Thrive, and What Consultants Must Do
Consulting to Over-Committed Organizations: Anatomy of Failure, Survival, and Intervention Organizations frequently commit to delivering products, features, or projects far beyond their actual capacit...
www.blog.gr2010.com
December 12, 2025 at 8:06 PM
Culture matters.
Risk-tolerant cultures embrace aggressive commitments more easily.
www.blog.gr2010.com/consulting-t...
Risk-tolerant cultures embrace aggressive commitments more easily.
www.blog.gr2010.com/consulting-t...
OD became a fad, like sideburns, short skirts, fedora hats and Blackberry phones. That era is dead, מת, caduc.
There is less OD done than in the past. in this post I want to focus more on factors endogenic to OD. Here's why
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There is less OD done than in the past. in this post I want to focus more on factors endogenic to OD. Here's why
www.blog.gr2010.com/why-is-od-no...
Why is OD not as common an undertaking as it used to be
Both barn dancing and the Beatles are not as popular as well; for heaven’s sake, some people don’t even know who Gerry and the Pacemakers were! And who was Chuck Berry? Or Hank Snow? Them was the good...
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December 5, 2025 at 2:02 PM
OD became a fad, like sideburns, short skirts, fedora hats and Blackberry phones. That era is dead, מת, caduc.
There is less OD done than in the past. in this post I want to focus more on factors endogenic to OD. Here's why
www.blog.gr2010.com/why-is-od-no...
There is less OD done than in the past. in this post I want to focus more on factors endogenic to OD. Here's why
www.blog.gr2010.com/why-is-od-no...
Few OD professionals r on top of their game, rather there are 1 trick ponies such AI freaks, or high priests of some religious fad , eg, rebranding strategies for individual employees. Incompetent people have done a damage by peddling damaged goods
www.blog.gr2010.com/why-is-od-no...
www.blog.gr2010.com/why-is-od-no...
Why is OD not as common an undertaking as it used to be
Both barn dancing and the Beatles are not as popular as well; for heaven’s sake, some people don’t even know who Gerry and the Pacemakers were! And who was Chuck Berry? Or Hank Snow? Organizational de...
www.blog.gr2010.com
December 5, 2025 at 9:15 AM
Few OD professionals r on top of their game, rather there are 1 trick ponies such AI freaks, or high priests of some religious fad , eg, rebranding strategies for individual employees. Incompetent people have done a damage by peddling damaged goods
www.blog.gr2010.com/why-is-od-no...
www.blog.gr2010.com/why-is-od-no...
Political dynamics and infighting within a geographically dispersed organization facing downsizing
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Case Study: Political Infighting
The organization is facing declining sales and profitability, and senior management has mandated significant cost reductions. Paul Wight, Head of R&D based in Denver, leads several development sit...
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December 4, 2025 at 9:03 AM
Political dynamics and infighting within a geographically dispersed organization facing downsizing
www.blog.gr2010.com/case-study-p...
www.blog.gr2010.com/case-study-p...
Often one looks at the top and we ask, “how did s/he get there?” Political skills are often the answer. And you may never see the top without political savvy.
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Initiation to Organizational Politics and Sex Education in the 1950’s-Updated
The ways and means that managers learn about organizational politics today reminds me of sex education in the late 1950’s and early 1960’s. All my friends thought my Dad was a liberal when he gave me ...
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November 27, 2025 at 7:01 AM
Often one looks at the top and we ask, “how did s/he get there?” Political skills are often the answer. And you may never see the top without political savvy.
www.blog.gr2010.com/organization...
www.blog.gr2010.com/organization...
What have the Danes done right so as to differentiate themselves from a world which is slowly descending into a pit of horrendous dysfunction? THAT is something to think about.
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Denmark triggers deep thought
Most societies have quirks. In Uganda, everything moves at a snail’s pace, so the easiest task can take days on end. Recently it took me 3 months to dry clean a hat. In Thailand, people will tel...
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November 23, 2025 at 6:17 AM
What have the Danes done right so as to differentiate themselves from a world which is slowly descending into a pit of horrendous dysfunction? THAT is something to think about.
www.blog.gr2010.com/denmark-trig...
www.blog.gr2010.com/denmark-trig...
The Danes (1) are, or (2) are doing, something very very much better than all of us. Maybe one, maybe both.
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www.blog.gr2010.com/denmark-trig...
Denmark triggers deep thought
Most societies have quirks. In Uganda, everything moves at a snail’s pace, so the easiest task can take days on end. In Thailand, people will tell you anything that will keep you feeling happy, ...
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November 22, 2025 at 10:39 AM
The Danes (1) are, or (2) are doing, something very very much better than all of us. Maybe one, maybe both.
www.blog.gr2010.com/denmark-trig...
www.blog.gr2010.com/denmark-trig...
Denmark triggers deep thought
www.blog.gr2010.com/denmark-trig...
www.blog.gr2010.com/denmark-trig...
Denmark triggers deep thought
Most societies have quirks. In Uganda, everything moves at a snail’s pace, so the easiest task can take days on end. In Thailand, people will tell you anything that will keep you feeling happy, ...
www.blog.gr2010.com
November 22, 2025 at 10:19 AM
Denmark triggers deep thought
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RIP, dear lad
November 20, 2025 at 6:03 PM
RIP, dear lad
2019-2026
Georges RIP
Georges RIP
November 20, 2025 at 6:02 PM
2019-2026
Georges RIP
Georges RIP
Thanks Fiona
I’m so sorry, Allon. George was the best.
November 18, 2025 at 1:44 PM
Thanks Fiona
George 2009-2025
RIP, my sweet boy
RIP, my sweet boy
November 16, 2025 at 5:13 PM
George 2009-2025
RIP, my sweet boy
RIP, my sweet boy