Coalition or Council: Which One Are You?
I have been thinking about institutions that strive for change. Sometimes we call them communities or organizations, sometimes we call th...
Translating How to Change the World
My new little book How to Change the World is being translated into Japanese and French, and a Chinese version is expected too. But I wan...
A Sense of Ownership
People have tried to get me involved as co-author of their book. But I didn’t want to. It was not my book. Some have asked me to help o...
How to Change the World (download the book!)
Done! My new booklet called How to Change the World is now available on Lulu for download (in PDF). It is the first new topic that I am p...
The T-Shirt Test
You pass the t-shirt test when people proudly wear a t-shirt with the logo of your organization on it. Would you proudly wear a t-shirt w...
How Do I Deal With My $%*! Organization?
It is one of the questions I get most often… How do I deal with my crappy organization? I like my work but I don’t like what manageme...
Your Work Is Awesome, Your Work Is Crap
Changing the world requires telling people when you feel delighted, and when you feel you’re suffering. Last week was our annual trip t...
The Mojito Method
The Mojito Method is about copying other people's good ideas and mixing them into something that is even more amazing. Many times I h...
Change the Environment, Not the People
People's behaviors depend on the environment. If you manipulate the environment, you manipulate behaviors. Agile is all about self-or...
Work the Network
Behaviors spread through a social network like viruses. You must work the network to change a whole organization. An organization is a so...
How to Change the World (After 15 Years of Failure)
I told people many times that I’ve been a failure for 15 years. In 1992 I tried to start an international newsletter about dance mu...
Changing People’s Barriers
ADKAR is a great model to guide change management initiatives at the personal level. In an earlier post I described Change Management 3.0...
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