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Brief History of Change: Lewin

LDRLB

In this series, we will review and contrast the major theoretical models of organizational change. The idea to develop a model around this process was first pursued by sociologist Kurt Lewin. Lewin uses the image of an ice cube to explain how to change an organization: unfreeze-change-refreeze.

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Brief History of Change: Lewin

LDRLB

In this series, we will review and contrast the major theoretical models of organizational change. The idea to develop a model around this process was first pursued by sociologist Kurt Lewin. Lewin uses the image of an ice cube to explain how to change an organization: unfreeze-change-refreeze.

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Is give-and-take an old-fashioned notion?

Lead Change Blog

In their book, People of the Lake: Mankind and its Beginnings , Richard Leakey and Kurt Lewin remark that our ancestors participated in an “honored network of obligation” i.e., I help you, you help me. Six people volunteered to develop a workbook for a nonprofit workshop. Five of the six agreed to edit and proof each other’s content.

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The Best Collection of Advice for New Leaders

Great Leadership By Dan

Welcome to the August 5 th , 2013 edition of the Leadership Development Carnival! And related to this is a very good leadership book that I recently read, What Keeps Leaders Up at Night , and on which I wrote a review. Review yourself at least quarterly.”. Ah, if only I had this when I got my first promotion. Tell the truth”.

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Leadership Posts from Top Bloggers

Michael Lee Stallard

Welcome to the January edition of the Leadership Development Carnival , New Year’s Edition! Jennifer Miller offers us her most popular post of the year, and asks if people really care about leadership development, or if they just can’t resist a free offer. posted at The People Equation.

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Scaling Is Hard. Here's How Akamai Did It.

Harvard Business Review

Facebook and Google would be obvious choices for this, but so much has been written about each of them and they represent such special business models, I worried that it would be both hard for entrepreneurs to relate and hard for me to develop new insights. The first one I'll focus on is Akamai. Akamai: The Present. Akamai Going Forward.

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To Be a Fly on the Wall at Facebook on IPO Day

Harvard Business Review

In July 1999, I left a law firm for a business development role at a startup with a strange name — Akamai Technologies. Our co-founder and CTO, Danny Lewin, had suddenly turned from a struggling graduate student to a staggeringly wealthy man. I had a front row seat to one of the most successful IPO's of the dot-com boom.

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