ABSTRACT
Time logics indicate that time is an aspect of the culture of that organization that people are attached to. Time logics can preclude thinking and behaving in different and more effective ways. Changing relationships to time frequently involves changing culture, those well-established routines and practices that structure organization life. Experiential mapping of time can offer intriguing insights into an organization's temporal cultures. Tempo refers to choices about whether organizational change is relaxed or driven, with a constant or varied pace and single or multiple rhythms. The tempo and pace of work varies across the different streams of project work, across professional specialisms and over the project life cycle. A timely intervention will be designed to contain the client and internal consultant and bring both into the present before working on the presenting task. Modeling time-in-the-mind, of both the insider and client organization, offers cognitive artifacts to anchor perceptions and experiences of time within plans for change.
