How to Have a Strategy for Change

Think of “strat­e­gy” as hav­ing a per­spec­tive, an agen­da if you will, about how things could be bet­ter. When I’m help­ing a man­ag­er think about what those things are for a depart­ment in a more or less tra­di­tion­al hier­ar­chy, I like to employ a kind of sys­tems map that illu­mi­nates dif­fer­ent aspects of the work… Con­tin­ue read­ing How to Have a Strat­e­gy for Change

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