The ropes
As we learn from Marco Tinelli, turning around a chain-link system requires direct leadership and design. Conversely, the excellence achieved by a well-managed chain-link system is difficult to replicate.
Richard Rumelt • Good Strategy Bad Strategy: The Difference and Why It Matters
stages, a business needs to think differently about three elements of its organization: its structures, its processes, and its cultural norms.
Roger L. Martin • The Design of Business
In the workplace, this organizational context includes the success of past changes, how much change is already going on, reinforcements or rewards that were part of past change, the organization’s culture and the overall direction of the organization.
Jeffrey Hiatt • ADKAR: A Model for Change in Business, Government and our Community
change. Often organizations treat a Transformation (with a capital T) as a project with a start date and an end date, applying an old way of thinking to new ways of working. Imposing Agile is not agile, nor is treating it as a deterministic project. In addition, humans have an evolutionary bias to be averse to loss. Collectively, all of this can ge
... See moreJonathan Smart • Sooner Safer Happier: Antipatterns and Patterns for Business Agility
