{"id":2382,"date":"2013-07-04T11:00:41","date_gmt":"2013-07-04T10:00:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.idenk.com\/blog\/?p=2382"},"modified":"2013-07-02T14:48:44","modified_gmt":"2013-07-02T13:48:44","slug":"the-leading-edge-of-change","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.idenk.com\/blog\/the-leading-edge-of-change\/","title":{"rendered":"The leading edge of change?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>There are many ideas and theories on change \u2013 we even manage to profile <a href=\"http:\/\/www.idenk.com\/resources\/change_management.shtml \" rel=\"nofollow\">a selection <\/a>ourselves.<\/p>\n<p>A couple of things we like are:<br \/>\n1) The saying from Goldratt: Every improvement is a change, but not every change is an improvement<br \/>\n2) Noting that after all the models, there are only two types of organisational change: Type One, where you are \u2018merely\u2019 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. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=EZ15vUjgqvw\" rel=\"nofollow\">This video <\/a>is a great (powerful and fun) illustration of type 2 by Webb and Mitchell.<\/p>\n<p>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\u2026.however, as <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Social_movement\" rel=\"nofollow\">this shows<\/a>, this self-organising, mass approach has a long history\u2026one that pre-dates the 20th Century interest in CHANGE!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There are many ideas and theories on change \u2013 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 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[155],"tags":[29],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.idenk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2382"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.idenk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.idenk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.idenk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.idenk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2382"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.idenk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2382\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2390,"href":"https:\/\/www.idenk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2382\/revisions\/2390"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.idenk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2382"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.idenk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2382"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.idenk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2382"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}