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Why should we measure story in a new way? Because using story well is our great chance in public media to be the leaders of our time. To help Americans take back their power to control their lives and their communities.

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This is a short clip from a recent lecture I gave at the LSE Complexity Programme, integrating Dave Snowden's Cynefin Framework with Gunderson and Holling's Cycle of Adaptive Change.

This adds the time dimension to Snowden's Framework and adds a strategic knowledge dimension to the Cycle of Adaptive Change. This provides queues for knowledge and action during different kinds of transition, which provides a theory-driven evidence base for strategic action during times of dynamics uncertainty.

Conner and Patterson (1982) propose a total of 8 stages (see figure below) for an organisation or a person to go through when becoming committed to a change goal. The authors claim that each stage indicates a critical juncture, in which commitment can be threatened. This is shown in the illustration below. If a stage is completed successfully, advancement to the next stage is possible. If not, the downward arrows indicate the result.

The 2.0 Adoption Council’s growth makes clear that Enterprise 2.0 has evolved from an amorphous set of activities and goals into a valuable corporate focus point. Despite enthusiasm, however, we must recognize that Enterprise 2.0 adoption is subject to the same issues and obstacles as any other business transformation initiativ

There are many theories about how to "do" change. Many originate with leadership and change management guru, John Kotter. A professor at Harvard Business School and world-renowned change expert, Kotter introduced his eight-step change process in his 1995 book, "Leading Change." We look at his eight steps for leading change below.

Readers will know the drill. Twenty people, 3 facilitators, a blank and anonymous room, lots of flip charts, stacks of stickies, everyone's name in plexiglass, all of us seated in a square. In a hundred years historians and anthropologists are going to wa

The transtheoretical model of change in health psychology explains or predicts a person's success or failure in achieving a proposed behavior change, such as developing different habits. It attempts to answer why the change "stuck" or alternatively why th