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0706 | How Transformation Works with Roger Martin & Sally Osberg

LDRLB

Strategy guru Roger L. In this interview, they describe how social entrepreneurs target systems that exist in a stable but unjust equilibrium and transform them into entirely new, superior, and sustainable equilibria. Martin and Skoll Foundation President and CEO Sally R.

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Change is a Double-Edged Sword

Lead Change Blog

While many of us know change is typically rapid and non-linear, less often is depicted its exciting potential for creative, innovative solutions. That, coupled with changes to internal systems and processes, delivered a range of services much better focused on responding to the needs of our local community. Applying Fullan’s thinking.

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Have your organization’s former Innovators become Laggards?

CO2

Everett Rogers came up with the Diffusion of Innovation model, which explains why and how a meme can move through a social system. Memes are generated by Innovators, and require a committed group of risk-taking Early Adaptors to propel them forward. The strongest resistance comes from the Laggards, however.

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Employees Do Care – and How that Helps your Bottom Line

Leading Blog

In order to develop a culture of continuous improvement there are two primary areas of focus: behavioral changes and a clear system to enable ideas for change. Innovation and creativity are supplanted by overhead creep, loss of productivity, and poor business decisions. For one, behaviors change.

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Constraint Kick Starts Creativity

Lead Change Blog

In fact, I contend, almost every innovation or breakthrough comes because of a constraint, forcing you to think in different ways. Think how many innovations and ideas have come because of boundaries, of people or circumstances that seemed to say “no”. Roger Bannister defied the boundary of a four-minute mile run.

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2011 ASA Deming Lecture by Roger Hoerl – Need Any Country be Poor?

Deming Institute

2011 ASA Deming Lecture by Roger Hoerl, GE Global Research: The World Is Calling; Should We Answer? Roger starts by discussing some areas of Deming’s work that are not getting the focus they deserve. Roger and Persia Neidermeyer wrote a book on the effort – Use What You Have: Resolving the HIV/AIDS Pandemic.

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The Optimist’s Telescope: Thinking Ahead in a Reckless Age

Leading Blog

At a Stanford Director’s College in 2016, Roger Dunbar, chair of the Silicon Valley Bank, told Venkataraman that “when he hears company executives or board members responding to short-term noise with outsize reactions, he likes to pretend he is lost. Direct Attention Away from Immediate Urges. “We Avoid temptations.

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