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Assets & Strengths Base – Introducing 1 of my 40 rules of change

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For more than 30 years I have been involved in ‘change’ in organizations. Again and again, some fundamental principles, and often inconvenient truths were popping up all the time. Recently, I put them all together – resulting in 40 ‘universal rules of change’.

These ‘rules’ were emerging from the practical work that I was doing with my team, not from the theory of books or ‘change models’ or ‘change methods’. In fact, I have done a lot of challenging to the conventional management thinking in this area.

Let me tell you in this short video, why I think a focus on “assets and strengths base” is one powerful driver of successful (organizational) change.
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The business organization seems to be obsessed with deficit: what we don’t have, does not work, we are low in. Tons of energy is used in fixing, less in building.

Employee engagement surveys tell you what you are lacking, where your scorers are low. OK, also the high ones, but management attention is insignificant compared to the call to arms to investigate the lower-than-benchmark scores.

Quite a lot of (macro social) community development in society, starts at the opposite end: banking on strengths, focusing on what we have and how we use, what we are good at, where the energy is. Organizations can learn from that.
If you want to hear more about the full set of rules, my team and I have a great opportunity coming up very soon. Let us know if you would like to know more here [2] or via [email protected].