Leading Blog

MARCH 5, 2020

Quinn on the connection between changing a system and understanding it: “Kurt Lewin argued that we cannot really begin to understand a system until we try to change it. He understood that individual as well as collective scripts would stay hidden until the normal way that the organization operates is challenged.

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LDRLB

SEPTEMBER 8, 2011

Considering what is said about imitation, the Harvard Business School professor must be the most flattered guru in management. Talk openly about the change vision and apply it to all aspects of operation. Lewin would be flattered. Kotter’s work has been repacked and resold by countless “change consultants.”

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Kotter Lewin Short-term Open-book 102

LDRLB

SEPTEMBER 8, 2011

Considering what is said about imitation, the Harvard Business School professor must be the most flattered guru in management. Talk openly about the change vision and apply it to all aspects of operation. Lewin would be flattered. Kotter’s work has been repacked and resold by countless “change consultants.” Remove obstacles.

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Kotter Lewin Short-term Open-book 99

Change Starts Here

SEPTEMBER 29, 2015

The following article shares one practitioner’s journey to uncover new models and expand his change management toolkit. Change management models. I am a process guy by training, but I make my living from change management. So whilst I might be a process guy it is change management that pays my mortgage.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 7, 2012

Interestingly, the company's founding vision was not a lean idea, but rather a big idea: to accelerate and manage Internet traffic on a global, highly scalable, highly distributed scale. Systems were put in place and professional managers with experience in building mission-critical products were hired. Founding Akamai.

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P&L Lewin EBITDA Ries 15