Organizational Change
Your job involves change, even if you don’t have “change management” in your job description. My thoughts, methods, and insights from 40 years of catalyzing, observing, and being part of organizational change.
Blog Posts
Shaping Patterns
How do you create an environment for great work? Where healthy self-organization happens? You notice...
The Fingerprint Principle
When leaders make a change, they want buy-in. But they way they present a change...
The Forest Succession Principle
In ecology, the process through which rocky ground becomes a forest is referred to as...
Re-Teaming, Not Churn
In response to a tweet on the benefits of stable teams, someone asked whether I’m...
Supporting People Through Change
We are all experiencing change right now. Minor blips and stunning upheavals. Routines at home...
Explicit and Implicit Knowledge
Baking may not seem related to the work we do. However, my experience teaching a friend...
They Need to Change (But Might Not Know It)
Sometimes I meet teams who’ve adjusted or even embraced a change initiated by company leadership....
Work on the System
When I say “work on system,” I mean influencing factors that contribute to patterns of...
Training and Education
Recently, while discussing how job descriptions and evaluation criteria impact collaboration, a director commented, “Behavior....
Podcasts
System Constraints and Deconstraints- Law of Jam Episode 4
Adding and removing constraints impacts patterns and performance. Too many constraints limit people from taking...
Change and Churn- Change by Attraction Episode 30
When leaders decided to make a change, they hope it will improve performance. But, while...
Reduce Friction- Change by Attraction Episode 29
Why don’t ppl want to change? I hear this question a lot. The assumption behind...
In the zone- Change by Attraction Episode 24
Even when you have a big idea, you get there with little steps. This isn’t...
This Over That- Change by Attraction Episode 22
In the course of observing, leading, and participating in many organizational changes, I’m discovering how...
Micro Shifts- Change by Attraction Episode 19
We’re trained to think big, to go for that big hairy audacious goals, to go...
Videos
AgileByExample 2017: Discussion panel
Discussion panel: Alistair Cockburn, Esther Derby, Tom Gilb, Donald Reinertsen, Dave Snowden moderated by Andy...
Six Rules for Change
AgileByExample 2017 Conference
Change by Attraction
Often people try to change other people by imposing processes, pushing, prodding, even punishing them....
Creating the Conditions for Change @AgileIBM
How can we make change–whether it’s adopting Scrum at the team level, or agile at...
Esther Derby and Matthew Carlson- There Are No More Early Adopters of Agile
After 20 years, Agile has in a sense become pervasive. While it’s neither mandated nor...
Micro Shifts Macro Results
It may seem paradoxical that something small leads to something big. Yet this is the...