Can you kiss the frog prince?

This question stuck with me and I still differentiate between personnel and organizational development based on this logic today. While personnel development is about letting employees realize their potential and turning them into princes, organizational development is about a system that cannot be kissed.

Personnel development encompasses all measures for the promotion and further training of employees, managers and junior managers. The aim is to ensure employability and thus the long-term success of the company, but also to keep employees motivated.

Organizational development is a planned, systematic process of changing an organization's strategies, processes, structures and cultures in order to improve its performance, effectiveness and growth. Change management as a sub-category is concerned with general change support, reorganization is the activity of structural adjustment and transformations focus on the organizational culture and its further development.

It's all really quite simple, isn't it?