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
Do you need to clean out your organizational closets? Closets are where we store useful...
How do you create an environment for great work? Where healthy self-organization happens? You notice...
When leaders make a change, they want buy-in. But they way they present a change...
In ecology, the process through which rocky ground becomes a forest is referred to as...
In response to a tweet on the benefits of stable teams, someone asked whether I’m...
When making a change or fixing a problem, we consider the outcome we want to...
We are all experiencing change right now. Minor blips and stunning upheavals. Routines at home...
Baking may not seem related to the work we do. However, my experience teaching a friend...
Sometimes I meet teams who’ve adjusted or even embraced a change initiated by company leadership....
When I say “work on system,” I mean influencing factors that contribute to patterns of...
Like many people, I’m staying home during a pandemic, trying to work, using collaboration tools....
Recently, while discussing how job descriptions and evaluation criteria impact collaboration, a director commented, “Behavior....
Podcasts
Adding and removing constraints impacts patterns and performance. Too many constraints limit people from taking...
When leaders decided to make a change, they hope it will improve performance. But, while...
Why don’t ppl want to change? I hear this question a lot. The assumption behind...
Even when you have a big idea, you get there with little steps. This isn’t...
In the course of observing, leading, and participating in many organizational changes, I’m discovering how...
We’re trained to think big, to go for that big hairy audacious goals, to go...
Videos
Discussion panel: Alistair Cockburn, Esther Derby, Tom Gilb, Donald Reinertsen, Dave Snowden moderated by Andy...
Often people try to change other people by imposing processes, pushing, prodding, even punishing them....
How can we make change–whether it’s adopting Scrum at the team level, or agile at...
After 20 years, Agile has in a sense become pervasive. While it’s neither mandated nor...
It may seem paradoxical that something small leads to something big. Yet this is the...