Replying to LO5336 -- Julie Beeden's post, Tobin writes:
>I would suggest that it might be the people who change last for the most
>part, and the system--which is much larger than any one organization in
>it--that is busy transitioning to new states before we are even aware of
>it.
But that's only because we are capable of using our brains to resist
change. You see, change is the natural state.
>One alternative which is also attractive to me is to do all of these
>things at once--start at the bottom, middle, top, outside, _and_
>everywhere as well. This has the advantage of giving everyone a chance to
>take a part of the action and come up with some results. Hopefully by
>working at all of the edges (a la Uri Merry, Mike McMaster, Doug Seeley,
>etc.) we will begin to precipitate the essential changes that need to
>occur so that we can find them by their results.
If you were to institute your approach, I can just about guarantee people
will accuse you of producing chaos, which of course you would be (sort
of). Actually, you'd be enabling a more natural state. The control freaks
would just die!
Cheers,
-- Ginger Shafer The Leadership Dimension "Bringing Leadership to Life" vshafer@azstarnet.com -Info: learning-org-approval@world.std.com or <http://world.std.com/~lo/>