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December 4, 2017

by Shahin Sheidaei Change is only constant in the world we live in, and you are a part of it! In fact, you are in the business of Change. You may be influencing the change of people’s behavior and/or their processes. You might be directing a change, focusing on the process versus people aspect of...

March 8, 2017

by Sarah Baca Recently I had a doctor’s appointment, and the doctor was talking about how when he works with patients he gives them lots of information. That information includes exercises to help them manage pain. But getting them to actually do those exercises seems impossible. This sounded like a familiar problem to me. I...

June 8, 2016

by Jason Little This is the story of Lean Change Management’s Jason Little, and how he became an accidental entrepreneur. It’s been four years since is first book was published, two since he started his lean change agent workshop program, and five since he decided to toss the over-used buzzword ‘agile’ into the toilet for a...

March 9, 2016

by Jason Little I saw a notification popup in my twitter feed a couple of weeks ago: Naturally, I wanted to see what it was that I was supposed to say something about! So what do I think about that? Read on! Yesterday I chatted with someone at a large bank that employs ~30K people...

October 2, 2015

A lot of management books are full of great tips. You read things like ‘empowering workers’ or ‘delighting customers’. Great suggestions, but they’re not actionable, are they? What you want to know is how to change your organization, starting right now. The Management 3.0 workshops are about collaboration, team play and creating smart ideas together....

June 10, 2015

There’s no doubt that an organization, whether a bootstrapped startup or a Fortune 100, is filled with complexity. Your team is a complex, adaptive, and evolving system. Managing a team is not a linear, bounded, or overtly analytical activity. It takes patience, creativity and constant insight into the complexity thinking of your group. Inspired by Switch: How to...

February 12, 2015

What is change management? How do project management and change management intersect? What do you do when you realize that, while you like the work you’re doing, you don’t like what management is doing? Well, you have three options: You can ignore it. You can quit your job. Or you can learn about the change...

February 12, 2014

by Jason Little Over a decade ago, I was one of three people working in an early stage startup. This company was the first to create a mobile content creation and delivery platform for wireless carriers in Canada. One of the co-founders handled the content licensing, and the other co-founder built and maintained the platform....

November 15, 2013

by Jason Little I’ve cited this study about change initiative failuresand also questioned its validity. I have observed that the core problems change management professionals and Agile coaches run into are (a)the projectification of highly uncertain pieces of work and (b)how organizations measure performance.These approaches work actively against the success of change initiatives. The ‘pieces of work’ I...

September 9, 2013

by Vasco Duarte Most questions I get come down to, ‘Organizational change, how can I get it done?’ I often encourage people to first try new approaches on a small basis in their daily work. Celebrate successes and make their achievements visible so that the change can slowly spread. But sometimes people – or complete...

August 19, 2013

by Vasco Duarte The French, they sure are a funny lot. They like to do things their own way. Heck, they even use a different word for computer just to annoy the rest of the world. At the same time they know how to live the good life. If wine hadn’t already been invented, the...

April 15, 2013

by Vasco Duarte Change is a peculiar thing. It’s always around us. In nature, in the networks we live and work in. Nothing ever seems the same and without thinking we adapt to these changes. But at the same time we often find ourselves stuck in the way we do things. Because change is uncertainty...