how change happens 09 15 09
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Change
How does CHANGE really happen?
SocietyIndividual Team Organization
It’s a linear journey and there are road signs + fear of pain and
prospects of gain – only 7 steps, I thought there were 12
It’s all about physics (and psychology – thank you Mr.
Deming) - play with the forces – Lewin
Yoda was right
It’s about the refrigerator – unfreeze, change, refreeze
Cryogenics too
Peer pressure and keeping up with the Jones
From the civil war (and before) to 1954 (and beyond)
Women jogging
Bring on the enabler – Doctor it hurts when I … then don’t …
Can I borrow your watch
Imitation is … Where’s the cliff
First, awareness and then …
I just do it that way – stop getting in my head
The importance of tension – as-is meets to-be and thanks for the gap – it’s all about crossing the bridge over the chasm (do you have to be
a bridge builder first)
Compliance – aye, aye sir
Sir, Sir is a subservient word surviving from the surly days of old Siberia, when certain serfs too servile to blaspheme their master, yet too ignorant to remember their lordship’s name or too lazy to pronounce it, circumvented the situation by surrogating the serviceable word Sir, by which I belatedly address a certain senior ceriped who
correctly surmised that I was syrupy enough not to say Sir after each word I spoke to him, Sir!
Rewards (on the psychological side) – Napoleon and a piece of ribbon for your life and those of
your comrades – why did he die on an island?
Tufts – The power of positive deviance in Viet Nam and
elsewhere – Would you like to become a positive deviant?
Blue eyes are good … brown bad – off with the collar – Jane Elliott
(Hitler and herds)
Economic theory of humans, organizations, nations – did Adam
Smith, Keynes, and Friedman say it all – if so, what just happened
Leverage – Is there such a thing when it comes to changes –
Archimedes rules?
Ready, fire, aim or just fire and see what happens – OUDA loop –
iterate incrementally – Agile change
Observe, Orient, Decide and Act – John Boyd
Bet on people more than strategy – find the team (but what about everyone else – the unteam)
Emergence and Complex Adaptive Systems – Norbert Weiner and
before = The Tipping Point
It’s the network stupid thanks for being a node
&Almost infinite