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LeadershipinanAgeofUncertainty-researchbrief.pdf (application/pd. Powerful Learning Practice, LLC » Blog Archive » Educator as Cha. By: Sheryl Nussbaum-Beach- (repost from the PLP Year 2 Community) A change agent, or agent of change, is someone who intentionally or indirectly causes or accelerates social, cultural, or behavioral change. As the time to end another year with PLP comes to a close I hope you are seeing yourself as an agent of change.

Questions for the Change Agent in You 1. Do you see opportunities for positive change that others at your school do not see? It was French novelist Marcel Proust, who famously said, “The real act of discovery consists not in finding new lands but in seeing with new eyes.” The most successful change agents don’t do more… they do differently. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. Sure–others will be resistant to change. Be that unbalanced force. Newton’s First Law of Motion: The Law of Inertia. And as PLPeeps– know your community and network are here to help. Post insired and reworked from About the author. B Corporation Blog. Dialogue5_spies_comm.pdf (application/pdf Object) Strategy and change. The Mall of Human Needs - The Change Journey. All individuals have different concerns, purposes and needs.

Have you thought about it? These needs can be related to their private as well as to their working life. Some of them are conscious needs but many are unconscious. What we experience as individual resistance of people in change processes is in fact an expression of the belief that their needs are not being fulfilled, or their concerns are not taken seriously. The following table gives you an overview on the fundamental human needs that people have (based on a model of Manfred Max Neef), and the satisfier that go along with them. What do we know about the needs, concerns and circumstance of our people? The Observatory for Weak Signals - The Change Journey. Strong signals about things going the wrong way are easy to notice in an organization - or even to measure by numbers. Strong signals will show up anyway and everybody will be concerned about them. When we notice strong signals we know that something needs to be done.

Weak signals however are more challenging but also equally important. They are based on intuition and feelings. In an organizational or team setting, how can we notice that we are heading the wrong? The Mindsystems Blog (published by John England) writes on the Theory of Weak Signals:Have you ever asked, “Why didn’t I see that … it was right under my nose all the time?” If we are going to detect these weak signals, we need to devise a strategy. (developed by Vesa Purokuru and Antti Huntus) How is the energy for change?

Learning to Change Cloud 2.0. The new keynote "Rebuilding the World" by Don Tapscott. 2010 - The Encyclopaedia of Structured Visual Thinking. From GPWiki Tuesday 15 of April, 2014 DOWNLOAD the book here.Go to the Second 10Go to The 10 Disciplines "'Idea' is the primary tool of the 21st Century. Ideas are what makes the difference. The secret to personal success is always about having a better idea about 'you' and your ambition. At the root of anything there is always an Idea. Armed with this definition of 'idea' the '20 Things' we describe below are 'things' that need to be thought about very differently in this new decade if the idea is not to be still born. The western world has grown lazy, frustrated, dangerous and bland by following earlier ideas.

"Whether we are a business, a government agency or a start-up we must fully understand and embrace the power of IDEA. " Ideas are at the heart of any change, any new impetus, interest or action. An idea carries with it very special energy. "In a time of drastic change it is the learners who inherit the future. The leader's role is a dual path. "Include your people in your thinking. The Center for Creative Emergence. Steve Banhegyi & Associates weblog www.trans4mation.co.za. Bridges To Knowledge: A Blog by Barry Camson: Changing Business. The way we do business and the business models that support this in the three important areas of health-care, law and higher education are undergoing significant change and will continue to do so in the foreseeable future. What was already a fast moving world has moved into hyperdrive due to the Internet and now the impact of social networking. This presents challenges for those of us who spend a good deal of time working to be successful in our day-to-day efforts.

I am reminded of sailing. Having a good boat handling technique is helpful. It enables you to move forward in the short term. Health-care One aspect of health-care that I believe will change is that knowledge will become more dispersed. All of this will be greatly facilitated through knowledge embedded in software systems, by knowledge being made widely available via the Internet and through social groupings on the Internet. What the actual new health-care "boat" will look like remains to be seen. Law Higher Education Conclusion. GLOCONSOL, Service Innovation Development, Diensteninnovatie / D. Creatingspace - Group No. 1. Collaboration seen thru many lenses. What You Believe, You Receive...

Beliefs mould us as individuals and determine how we live our lives; from which religion we follow to the choices we make every single day. They are extremely powerful. Some people live their lives believing they are not good enough, smart enough, passionate enough, or attractive enough to experience the great things in life. They believe that their opinions, goals, or values are not important. If we have the power to create such negative beliefs and feelings of depression, self-hate, insecurity, and anxiety; then we must have the power to create feelings of joy, self-respect, confidence, and stability. We cannot create success without the absolute belief in ourselves that we can handle anything that comes our way and achieve anything we put our minds to. Everything we need to create in our lives lies inside of us. Communitize - On collaboration, co-creation and collective intel.

Will Social Technology Change Business? | The Relationship Econo. The impact of social technology on business as usual is and will continue to be profound. Profound in that social technology fuels never-ending change caused by the markets of conversations. These markets represent intelligence that is transparent, fluid and engaging by crowds of suppliers, employees and consumers. Change is now fueled by the rate of interest and the rate of change caused by interactive conversations from everywhere and everyone. Instead of the old model of change, from the inside out, the new model of change is from the outside in. Markets are shifting at the speed of a mouse click. These markets represent the rate of interest change (both economic interest and consumer interest) and the interest is changing based on the consumption of information and knowledge. The voice of the customer used to be analyzed based on old feedback mechanisms and survey’s which were poorly designed and time-consuming.

What say you? Lenny Mendonca Chairman, McKinsey Global Institute. Case 4 Change « opensource.association. Did you ever wonder what it must have been like to live during the Renaissance period? Did people realize how fundamental their world was changing? How innovations in thought, word and deed created new ways to work and live? One wonders whether we live in a similar period today. A host of disruptive innovations in business models, product and service development, and customer experiences, combine with the rise of some of the most creative, demanding, and collaborative consumers are changing our world just as if we were living during the time of DaVinci and Botticelli. Why should an association consider alternative approaches to defining its value, creating or delivering its products and services, or redesigning its infrastructure? We shall examine such Disruptors of Status Quo as the: Like this: Like Loading...

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