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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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 4, 2024

Rooted in a change model popularized by German American psychologist Kurt Lewin in the 1950s, this approach involves three stages: “unfreeze, change, and refreeze.” Traditionally, transformation efforts are organized as programs with a defined beginning and end.

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Lewin Agility Operations Project 21

LDRLB

SEPTEMBER 8, 2011

Talk openly about the change vision and apply it to all aspects of operation. Some have even theorized that Kotter’s eight-stages build upon the three-stages developed by Lewin by providing instructions for leaders to follow while unfreezing, changing and refreezing. Lewin would be flattered. Create a vision for change.

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Kotter Lewin Short-term Open-book 102

LDRLB

SEPTEMBER 8, 2011

Talk openly about the change vision and apply it to all aspects of operation. Some have even theorized that Kotter’s eight-stages build upon the three-stages developed by Lewin by providing instructions for leaders to follow while unfreezing, changing and refreezing. Lewin would be flattered. Create a vision for change.

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Kotter Lewin Short-term Open-book 99

Change Starts Here

SEPTEMBER 29, 2015

First I found Kurt Lewin’s Unfreeze – Change – Refreeze model. To reach this highly elevated position he has worked for numerous organisations; from supermarkets to tax collectors and has had lots of jobs, including running the night shift in a frozen pea packing plant and doing operational research for a credit card company.

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ADKAR Management Early Adopters Rogers 60

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 7, 2012

Technical founders Tom Leighton and Danny Lewin built the original prototype at their lab at MIT starting in late 1996 before raising capital, so in a sense Akamai's Minimum Viable Product (MVP) was a prototype with the basic architecture and traffic mapping in place that validated algorithms for the founders and investors alike.

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P&L Lewin EBITDA Ries 14