There are many ideas and theories on change – we even manage to profile a selection ourselves.

A couple of things we like are:
1) The saying from Goldratt: Every improvement is a change, but not every change is an improvement
2) Noting that after all the models, there are only two types of organisational change: Type One, where you are ‘merely’ asked to work in fresh ways; and Type Two, where some sort of change effort threatens the on-going offer of that job you need to pay your bills. This video is a great (powerful and fun) illustration of type 2 by Webb and Mitchell.

Social movements have been a bit trendy for about 5-10 years now as a way of thinking about voluntary change in modern organisations and complex systems….however, as this shows, this self-organising, mass approach has a long history…one that pre-dates the 20th Century interest in CHANGE!

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