Category: Change Agents
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Reading Seeds for a Boundless Life, a book on Zen Buddhism by Zenkei Blanch Hartman, I came across a reference to the Upajjhatthana Sutra’s Five Daily Reflections. The Sutra recommends daily reflections to help Buddhists to focus less on their attachments to ego & desires and more upon their actions. Reflecting on these, I saw a parallel…
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Give me a lever and a place to stand and I shall move the earth Archimedes There’s a tiny thing on the edge of a rudder called a trim tab. Just moving that little trim tab creates a low pressure that pulls the rudder around. It takes almost no effort at all Buckminster Fuller Change…
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What makes Change Agent Worldwide members tick? Lois Kelly interviews Jonathan Anthony. I’ve had a crush on Ben Franklin for a long time. I named a company after one of his experiments, (Thunder House), my office is in the former 1772 bookstore and printing press of one of his protégées, his Junto inspired my long-running…
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Ok, so perhaps it’s not a controversy but Liz Ryan’s recent article in Forbes entitled, “Don’t Hire A ‘Change Agent’ — And Don’t Be One” has stirred up some passions in the circles I travel in, particularly within the Change Agents Worldwide community for obvious reasons. It has led to excellent rebuttals by fellow Change…
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![The Unbearable Lightness of Being [a Network]](https://changeagentsworldwide.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/04/amoeba2.gif?w=1024)
When we launched Change Agents Worldwide back in January 2013, we wanted to experiment with a new kind of organizational model. We wanted to create a commercial enterprise that was effectively, a network. Many of our original charter members saw the efficacy of working together in an egalitarian system of shared values and were eager…
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A common topic of debate in the Responsive Organization movement is whether an organization can become responsive or it must be born that way. Undoubtedly many of the leading case studies of future of work organizations are organizations created or rebirthed from near death by charismatic founders. Some use this as evidence that the elements of a…
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Over the summer, our network went through some rocky reverberations. Conversations cropped up that forced us to think carefully about what we’re attempting to do here at Change Agents Worldwide. The process, although difficult, was healthy, sobering… cleansing. We divided into three international regional teams and set about to examine who we are and what we’re interested…
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Drowning in paperwork? Demoralized by endless meetings where you sit and sit and sit, and have no voice? Tired of performance management reviews that have little to do with your potential or passion? Frustrated by knowledge that buries itself in graveyards of email thread coffins? Then, we have a workshop for you. Come get…
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Last spring, we were approached by the Academic Director of Columbia University’s Graduate Information and Strategy program, Katrina Pugh. She had received word about the innovative way our Change Agents work out loud in the cloud. We were asked to contribute to a management book published recently by ARK Group, “Smarter Innovation: Using Interactive Processes to Drive…
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