More about Change

  • Preparing for Change Flowchart - Answering the 17 questions contained in our Preparing for Change Flowchart will assist you in preparing to address or navigate the potential pitfalls associated with an intentional change initiative.  It can also help you problem solve what might not be working in your response to an unintentional change initiative.
  • Preparing for Successful Change - Check out our paper on “Preparing for Successful Change.”  Implementing a change initiative is more than a simple technical fix for your problems. Instead, it’s a significant shift in the way things happen in your business. How well the implementation is managed is a strong indicator future success and how many of the potential benefits…
  • Navigating Change for Success - “Navigating Change for Success” is a collaborative white paper Don Johnston and Cindy Weeks co-authored that was presented at the MEMO conference in Ontario Canada in 2010.  In this VUCA world, organizations need to continuously adapt to change in the ecosphere, change that is speeding up every year. Organizations that are intentionally linked to their…
  • Leading at the Cusp of Change (a Prezi) - “Leading at the Cusp of Change” is the presentation we shared at the Washington State Nonprofit Conference on May 11, 2012.  It’s about the intersection of leadership and adaptive change, VUCA  and VUCA prime, our change model, and what you can do to better prepare yourself and your organization for the future.
  • Adaptive Enterprise - Adaptive Enterprise: Creating and Leading Sense-And-Respond Organizations – by Stephan Haeckel Unpredictable, discontinuous change is an unavoidable consequence of doing business in the Information Age. Because this intense turbulence demands fast – even instantaneous – response, many large companies are fragmenting themselves into smaller, quick-response units. But in doing so, they relinquish important advantages of…
  • Managing Transitions - Managing Transitions:  Making the Most of Change  – by William Bridges A significant number of the organizations we work with are struggling with the necessary transition from being entrepreneurial to “getting organized.” The larger challenge is that their leadership mindset often keeps them from even being able to see how their behavior is holding them…
  • The Practice of Adaptive Leadership - The Practice of Adaptive Leadership:  Tools and Tactics for Changing Your Organization and the World  – by Ronald Heifetz This book brings together all of Heifetz’s work to date on adaptive leadership and change, and addressed the complex and ambiguous nature of our current environment.  His work here aligns beautifully with all the components we…
  • 5 Principles for Navigating Change - As food for thought, here are 5 principles that will enhance your leadership capacity for navigating change in the midst of uncertainty.  We’ll explore them in more detail going forward. Prepare for the unexpected Plan for the expected, knowing it will change Be clear about why, flexible about how Practice safe-fail, since fail-safe is no…
  • Talking about “managing” change - We think the phrases “managing change” or “change management” are misleading – and even potentially problematic. While we can manage a technical fix, we really can’t manage an adaptive change. And using language that implies that we can potentially leads to unrealistic expectations, insufficient preparation, blinders to what’s really going on, and a lack of…
  • An overview of our Change Model - Change begins with a Current State – how things are right now – and looks forward to, and plans for, a Future State – how we want things to be on the other side of the change. We create a plan – how we think we will get to that Future State – shown here…
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