Category: Changing the World

Waking Up the World

It is a strange time, he said to me. No one can ques­tion that. Dai­ly life goes on, but against a frac­tured back­ground. Trust is naive, would­n’t you say? And our imag­ined, much laud­ed future for a long time’s been lit­tle more than a bro­ken puz­zle. Prob­lems have mount­ed, would­n’t you say? A pile of fire­wood just wait­ing for a match? Mean­while,… Con­tin­ue read­ing Wak­ing Up the World

On Fairy Tales

Often we can see some­one else — a friend, per­haps — liv­ing out their untrue sto­ry, and we want to help. The oth­er per­son says some­thing like… “I’m an out­sider — that’s just my nature!” — a sto­ry of feel­ing sep­a­rate “What­ev­er room I’m in, I’m the smartest one there!” — also a sto­ry of feel­ing… Con­tin­ue read­ing On Fairy Tales

Leadership and Co-Design

Although the term, co-design, has more spe­cif­ic, for­mal mean­ings, I like to think of it very infor­mal­ly as two or more peo­ple think­ing togeth­er as equals about some spe­cif­ic change they want to make. In my field of orga­ni­za­tion dynam­ics, that could be shift­ing how the work is done or how an orga­ni­za­tion is struc­tured,… Con­tin­ue read­ing Lead­er­ship and Co-Design

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