- Leading with influence: The art of changing your organization
San McAfee reminds that you need to influence people to change. You cannot force them, no matter how much authority you may technically have over them. Changing an organization is much more about changing the mindsets and attitudes of the people in it than changing rules or procedures. - Blame or curiosity
Esther Derby makes a compelling case for the value of curiosity over blame - Choosing the right endings
Alan Lane's reflections on Slung Low and choosing change - Steps for overcoming change resistance
Lena Reinhard's insightful guidance on helping your team navigate change - In the zone
Landing zone: “an improvement that would feel like an accomplishment, as well as a pause point to catch breath, reassess, and plan how to achieve the next better thing.” — Esther Derby - 20 Things I've Learned as a Systems (Over) Thinker
"The people you’re trying to influence spend 98% of their day overwhelmed by business as usual." — Jon Cutler - How to use simple experiments to improve how you organise and work
Tom Nixon recommends letting go of the desire to produce a grand design of an end-state, and instead work in smaller, short-term iterations. - How to start new habits that actually stick
Often change is about developing new habits and this is hard. James Clear outlines the mechanics of how we adopt new habits to give us more control of this.
Recommended links about change
Recommended books, articles, sites, talks and podcasts about change.