A Spiral Model of Change

I have always felt that orga­ni­za­tion­al change sim­ply could not be lin­ear. Some­how the notion that shifts in struc­ture, cul­ture, tech­nol­o­gy, process­es and sys­tems could be intro­duced accord­ing to some fixed recipe has always griev­ed me, as if it missed the most impor­tant com­po­nents, the deep­er human­i­ty of chang­ing what is toward what can or… Con­tin­ue read­ing A Spi­ral Mod­el of Change

Leading Change in a VUCA World

I’ve been think­ing a lot late­ly about the nature of what it takes to cre­ate and respond to mean­ing­ful change these days. Yes­ter­day, I brain­stormed the fol­low­ing after read­ing an arti­cle by John Kot­ter, one of the most respect­ed cul­ture change experts. How would you mod­i­fy what I’ve writ­ten? What would you add? In a VUCA… Con­tin­ue read­ing Lead­ing Change in a VUCA World

Two Types of Leadership Action

In a recent con­ver­sa­tion with an exec­u­tive I found myself explain­ing the dif­fer­ence between what I spon­ta­neous­ly called “Type I” and “Type II” lead­er­ship action. Type I is when a leader inquires infor­mal­ly about the expe­ri­ence of peo­ple, say over a cup of cof­fee or part of hall talk, wel­comes a gen­uine­ly open exchange, learns… Con­tin­ue read­ing Two Types of Lead­er­ship Action