Tags: Chang When we discussed safe-fail probes at CE accreditation course I was struck by the parallels between those and Roger’s characteristics of innovations that influence it’s adoption [from Wikipedia on diffision of innovations ]: Rogers defines several intrinsic characteristics of innovations that influence an individual’s decision to adopt or reject an innovation.

BLOG World-Changing Questions self-change. with others, we can bring about significant change through collective, effective, effective, considered and focused action, even without changing anyone's additional capacities you need to be effective at bringing about change in Questions 12 THINGS THINGS YOU CAN DO TO MAKE THE WORLD A BETTER PLACE I t's been

Creating visionary change in our communities will take more than just one or two organizations. Tags: Changing the World Words Matte Lately we hear a louder and louder drumbeat to stop using what my friend Mark Riffey calls “the other N word.”  Nonprofit. This post will not be about that. After all,

The starting quote is right of the mark : “Despite current ads and slogans, the world doesn’t change one person at a time. It changes when networks of relationships form among people who share a common cause and vision of what;s possible. We don’t need to convince large numbers of people to change; instead, we need to connect with kindred spirits. Republished from our archive in January 2007: The following is from a remarkable essay by Margaret Wheatley and Deborah Frieze, which I consider a must read.

Over the next few months I think we’ll hear much more about the potential for community activists to use blogs and other digital tools for social change in their localities. If it makes it easier to get to a meeting, to write a letter, to engage with our 19th century domocratic processes, then that’s how social media can make a change. Tags: social media local social change All One push will come from the digital mentors programme, where the Department for Communities and Local Government has now selected five consortia to develop bids in more details for the planned £900,000 support programme that I wrote about here .

For the same reason that Tom explains in the clip, managers have an enormous impact of the success, or otherwise, of any change initiative an organisation undertakes. ...Tags: Tags: Change managemen On Monday I ran a management development program for a NSW University. Our program relies on a 'pull' strategy to get participants to determine for themselves the things they need to work on to be better managers and leaders.

It is the evening of Day 2 of our immersion course for Consultants as Catalysts for Community Change. While I am taken away from the blog with this week’s amazing group of change agents, I hope the podcast will encourage you to push the envelope of your own potential to be the change you want to see. ...Tags: Tags: Changing the World Consultin And as always happens, teachers emerge everywhere – we are all learning, and all teaching. It is an honor to be part of this process.

Tags: Changing workplace Digital traces Agile distributed teams informal communicatio As promised – more thinking from our project looking at the challenges in distributed Agile teams . One of the first things we have observed was a heavy focus on goal-oriented communication between people in different locations: they would talk (this includes ‘type’ :) about solving particular problems around work, but hardly anything else.

But towards the end of the article he comes to put together a very thought provoking couple of sentences that explain very clearly, in my opinion, the cultural changes that will need to happen, RIGHT NOW , in order for both Social Computing (or Enterprise 2.0, 34; BP had been through a deliberate process of culture change, bringing in a culture of Openness, Performance-focus, Networking and Empowerment. I know that for a good number of years Social Computing and Knowledge Management have been walking different paths. Even more, I would probably be able to state that all along they

BP's Fiona MacLeod: A Change Agent Sees Change 'Addiction' - Knowledge@Wharton After 20 years of experience leading change management programs in the U.S., Europe and New Zealand, BP executive Fiona MacLeod has concluded that the corporate world is "addicted" to serial change management programs that consume massive resources but ultimately fail to solve the problems they aim to address. "What Given the post-Enterprise 2.0 conference prognostications regarding the "death" of E2.0 - an article worth reading below.