Posts Tagged ‘change’
A Brief History of Change: Introduction
This post is the first in our series on change. In this series, we will review and contrast the major theoretical models of organizational change.
Book Review: Change Anything
The folks behind Crucial Conversations and Influencer have released another one – Change Anything: The New Science of Personal Success. I’ll admit, I’m inherently skeptical of any title that includes both the words “science” and success” in the same line. I brought that skepticism with me when I picked up the review copy sent to [...]
Want to Change the World? Lead Second
In 1776, the Second Continental Congress drafted a document that they believed would change the world. It outlined a new form of government, a government formed around a union of states, with a weak central government and power resting with the people. Eleven years later, it failed. Most people forget that the Constitution currently used [...]
How to UnFreeze
Too often leaders are unsure of just how to unfreeze an organization and create change ready followers. Many leaders start by casting a grand vision of what the new organization looks like. However, followers, still frozen in their ways, do not receive this new vision because they have yet to see why change is necessary. [...]
Leaders Unbalance the Force
Kurt Lewin (1951), organizational theorist of “three phases” fame, also developed the concept of force fields in change. Lewin basically asserts that there are forces that drive change or progress toward a goal (helping forces) and forces that drive resistance to change (hindering forces). The difference in resistance to change vs. readiness to change lies [...]
