Tag: change

• Change Agents, Leadership

  The Five Daily Reflections of the Change Agent

  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…
• Change, Leadership, Uncategorized, Working Out Loud

  The Dizziness of Freedom by Diana Renner

  Diana Renner and I were discussing working out loud this week when Diana mentioned that she had an unpublished blog post in development that I recognised as the feeling of the ‘trembling finger’ when I am about to work out loud. This guest post is a result of that conversation. It is too good not…
• Change, Change Agents, Future of Work, Leadership

  Leadership in Transformation

  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…
• Adoption, Change, Future of Work

  Voices Of The Corporate People

  How can organizations become “social”? Adapting companies to the social economy so they can meet the requirements of empowered and connected customers requires some massive internal transformation. Even when leaders understand the necessity to shift away from old models and modernize their organizations, they hardly know where to start. To decide to join the social dance…
• Working Out Loud

  Working Out Loud Requires being Vulnerable

  I love listening to Podcasts. I listen to podcasts when I drive to and from work. I listen to podcasts when I am on a long drive – 6+ hours. I listen to a broad spectrum of podcasts: Football (soccer), Finance, Economics, News, Public Radio, Social business, etc. This weeks blog is prompted by a…
• Change, Future of Work, Leadership

  Change the Conversation

  A large part of the history of our technology has been the effort to use technology to control human behaviour. Technology transformation is often sold on the potential to better make humans do things that they should be doing. The failure of so many transformational technology programs is proof that human behavioural changes are a subtler…
• Change, Change Agents, Future of Work, Leadership, Working Out Loud

  The Future of Work is The Future of Leadership

  An insight about the future of work dropped this morning as I discussed leadership in the network era with Harold Jarche and Jon Husband, my colleagues in Change Agents Worldwide.   The Future of Work is the Future of Leadership The future belongs not to the leadership of technology. The future belongs to the technology of leadership. Our opportunity…
• Adoption, Change

  You Can’t Add a Collaboration Layer

  Collaboration is human-to-human interaction. We are rich, creative and diverse, given the chance. You can’t add a collaboration layer to your existing processes. Collaboration is not something that helps with the work. Collaboration is not something you integrate into your existing systems. Collaboration requires a fundamental rethink of the way work gets done. Collaboration is…
• Change, Leadership

  Corporate Rebels Unite!

  There are a number of enlightened individuals who are coming together to change the world of work.  We love what change agent Peter Vander Auwera created in Corporate Rebels United. In his own words: The main challenge is that the organizational anti-bodies always resist change, to be aware of this, and still keep on fighting.…
• Uncategorized

  Incent to Share

  Photo by Eric Ziegler Your company doesn’t share information. There are silos in your organization. Each silo is not interested in helping the other silos. Enterprise Social tools are integrated into business tools Enterprise Social tools are still not being used. Why is it not working? Culture culture culture. Technology is not what wins the…