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Making Retrospective Changes Stick

Making Retrospective Changes Stick

by Esther Derby | Jun 12, 2010 | Collaboration & Teams, Organizational Change

This article first appeared on Stickyminds.com. Recently, a reader wrote to me with a concern about retrospectives. “We make decisions,” he wrote, “but we don’t have the discipline to carry them out. The team is starting to feel like...
Influencing the Pattern: A Systems Approach

Influencing the Pattern: A Systems Approach

by Esther Derby | Jun 3, 2010 | Systems and Complexity

Systems drive behavior. Therefore, if you want to change behavior in an organization you need to understand the factors that influence the current pattern. An Example The managers in an organization have decided that they want the productivity and morale benefits of...
Musing on Organizational Change

Musing on Organizational Change

by Esther Derby | May 21, 2010 | Organizational Change, Systems and Complexity

A while back, I sat in on a birds-of-a-feather session on organizational change.  The main theme was bemoaning the difficulty changing even mid-sized organizations. When people talk about how hard it is to bring change there’s a tendency to blame:  people who...
Seven Lessons from a Top-Down Change

Seven Lessons from a Top-Down Change

by Esther Derby | May 17, 2010 | Leadership & Management, Organizational Change

You’d think that since I’m president of a one-person company, I could change anything in my office in a snap. But a recent incident reminded me that top-down change is always a process. My dog, Miss Pudge, comes to the office with me every day. Until recently, she...

Adaptive Planning and the Personal Learning Curve

by Esther Derby | Apr 17, 2010 | Leadership & Management, Organizational Change

Most of my clients want to change something: they want to deliver software faster, reduce the number of defects the software they do deliver, and improve financial results. Affecting these changes neither simple nor easy. Improving organizational results involves...
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