'A good organizer is a social arsonist who goes around setting people on fire.'—Fred Ross
Fred Ross (1910-1992) American community organizer was behind many modern social mo[...]
“A good organizer is a social arsonist who goes around setting people on fire.”—Fred Ross
Fred Ross (1910-1992) American community organizer was behind many modern social movemen[...]
I said yesterday that for large scale mobilization of people (AKA social movements, AKA company culture), it needs a platform. They don’t need a ‘change management method’ . Viral Change™ is our mobilizing platform.
So what is a platform? [...]
Whether in society or inside the organization, we have plenty of ‘theories of change’ surprisingly unchallenged. Can we please look at them with a critical eye?
This first insight provides a counter intuitive position, I know. But it goes li[...]
Whether in society or inside the organization, we have plenty of ‘theories of change’ surprisingly unchallenged. Can we please look at them with a critical eye?
This first insight provides a counter intuitive position, I know. But it goes li[...]
I said yesterday that large scale mobilization of people (AKA social movements, AKA company culture) needs a platform. They don’t need a ‘change management method’ . Viral Change™ is our mobilizing platform.
So what is a platform? An ecosy[...]
I wrote a couple of days ago that the traditional model of change ‘A to Z’ or ‘destination’ is in itself a wasted opportunity to create ‘capacity for change’. It has low learning pay off and low building of long term capabilities. See her[...]
"A good organizer is a social arsonist who goes around setting people on fire."—Fred Ross
Fred Ross (1910-1992) American community organizer was behind many modern social movements in the USA and also behind the organization of many lab[...]
The recent State of the Union address by US president Obama had, to distant and detached eyes such as mine, three highlights. One, the incredible listing of policies that Obama plans to launch, in equal number to the ones that will never be passed by[...]
When people form the US Republican side wanted to dismiss the importance of a ‘less-well-known’ Obama coming to the fry, they referred to him as a ‘community organiser’. It was a way to downplay his importance and credentials, I suppose, inst[...]
Banks have had stress tests (imposed) to see how they would cope with difficult market conditions. For example, in the US, a typical stress scenario in the past has been: 50 per cent drop in equity prices; 21 per cent decline in housing prices; unemp[...]
Organizational performance is unique. Cut and paste does not work. You need to find your own formula. Good to hear about how Google does, and how Apple doe[...]
In the old Greek tragedies, when the plot became an unsolvable mess, a God (or few of them) came down from the sky, often on a mechanical platform (deus ex machina) and solved the issue, ful[...]