Category: Change Agents
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Many moons ago, I was a stage actor in a theatre group. Grease paint. Dialogues. Arc lights. And all that! From the plays of Anton Chekov to ‘The Zoo Story’ (my toughest) by Edward Albee). The Zoo Story, I recall in particular, was miles and miles of dialogue. A never ending ascent of a…
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$17,000. That’s the estimated value of the free consulting I received during my seven days in the Green Room. But that doesn’t begin to capture the actual value of the experience. Because you can’t put a price on epiphanies. Or a mindset change. Or the increased excitement, confidence and enthusiasm I developed after working with…
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Change Agents Worldwide has a unique business model that is in perpetual beta, as our friend and fellow Change Agent, Harold Jarche, likes to say. Everything we do, we do ourselves including all our branding and our web site. Funny thing is, we don’t have a web designer or UI/UX professional in the network. We’ve…
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My friends and colleagues at Change Agents Worldwide are kicking off a “blog carousel” to address all these reasons why organizations can’t change. This list was carefully compiled by a Product Engineer of the Milwaukee Gear Company in 1959. These objections still live on today in memos, meetings, analysis decks, and teleconference calls over a half-century…
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Not sure how I ended reading an old post by +Bertrand Duperrin but I did. Maybe something was calling to me. Maybe it is just purely coincidence that I re-read his blog post. Either way, it has triggered me to write a blog post for the first time in several months. Let’s dig in. Bertrand…
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The future of communications is already here, but most corporate communications – specifically internal communications – are proof that William Gibson was correct. The way we communicate in society, from publishing to consuming information, has been reshaped dramatically over the past decade. But inside a corporate environment, you’d barely notice it. The new communications covenant…
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Today marks our official birthdate as recognized by the great State of Texas. From the beginning, we’ve had a small circle of advisors to help us with fundamental business decisions. On our AngelList profile, you will see Esther Dyson, (needs no introduction), Marshall Kirkpatrick, CEO and CoFounder of Little Bird, and our most recent…
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Interview with GigaOm’s Stowe Boyd featuring Change Agents Worldwide‘s origins and mission. http://bit.ly/1hm0tW9 “The group’s vision is squarely centered on helping large companies transition from old world models established in the industrial era to modern network-based, agile models that improve not only the work experience for the workforce, but lead to top-line gains in innovation and growth.…