Let's Grow Leaders

MARCH 19, 2023

In the video, I describe a time-tested tool, Kurt Lewin’s Force field analysis that we use quite frequently in our leadership programs. Help Them Express Their Concerns Get the concerns in the room, in the room. Give time for everyone to share their concerns and ask courageous questions. Get curious about the possibilities.

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LDRLB

JUNE 16, 2010

In the 1950s Kurt Lewin created a new discipline of management: change management. Managers and leaders had always been tasked with instigating and facilitating transitions, but Lewin’s work represented the first well-researched theoretical model describing the change process.

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LDRLB

JULY 28, 2010

Kurt Lewin (1951), organizational theorist of “three phases” fame, also developed the concept of force fields in change. Lewin basically asserts that there are forces that drive change or progress toward a goal (helping forces) and forces that drive resistance to change (hindering forces). Leadership change lewin'

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Mike Cardus

JULY 15, 2013

Lewin/Schein change Model – Summation from ‘ The Corporate Culture Survival Guide ’ Edgar Schein. How might you incorporate the Lewin/Schein 3 stages of change and the ideas of Survival plus Learning anxiety into your work? Change and Complexity are conjoined like twins with a secret language. 3 Stages of Change. Photo Credit.

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LDRLB

AUGUST 9, 2011

In the series, we’ll get up close and personal with change and discusses the various models for leading your organization through changing, starting with the godfather of organizational change, Kurt Lewin. Leadership change lewin'

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LDRLB

SEPTEMBER 8, 2011

Some have even theorized that Kotter’s eight-stages build upon the three-stages developed by Lewin by providing instructions for leaders to follow while unfreezing, changing and refreezing. Lewin would be flattered. Kotter’s work is heavily relied on because of its prescriptive nature. Leadership change kotter'

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LDRLB

SEPTEMBER 8, 2011

Some have even theorized that Kotter’s eight-stages build upon the three-stages developed by Lewin by providing instructions for leaders to follow while unfreezing, changing and refreezing. Lewin would be flattered. Kotter’s work is heavily relied on because of its prescriptive nature.

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LDRLB

AUGUST 18, 2010

John Kotter’s (1996) book leading change presents an eight-step model for facilitating change that closely follows Lewin’s (1951) three phases model. Leadership change kotter lewin' However, followers, still frozen in their ways, do not receive this new vision because they have yet to see why change is necessary.

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Lead Change Blog

APRIL 12, 2016

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.

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Rapid BI

APRIL 13, 2017

Kurt Lewin in 1943 developed the concept based in the physical sciences. The Force Field analysis is a graphical tool for supporting decision making. It can be used equally by individuals or teams. He originally proposed it as a tool to understand problem based situations in social science and to effect planned change. He described […].

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LDRLB

AUGUST 19, 2011

Our brief history of change series feature Lewin and the three-stage model. David Burkus reminded us that the most celebrated organizations are often not using fresh ideas, just executing them. We reposted a video from Bret Simmons revealing the key to growing any business. John Richard Bell examined the best in class beauty marketers.

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LDRLB

AUGUST 9, 2011

In the series, we’ll get up close and personal with change and discusses the various models for leading your organization through changing, starting with the godfather of organizational change, Kurt Lewin. LeaderLab is partnering with organizational scholars to gather research on the importance of building ethical climates.

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Jesse Lyn Stoner Blog

DECEMBER 5, 2011

Or as Kurt Lewin described in his Force Field Theory , the status quo is maintained by equally opposing forces. Did you ever get feedback that you were too critical or didn’t listen enough or were not a team player… changed your behavior, and it didn’t make any difference? Why does this happen? In part the answer lies in physics.

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LDRLB

MARCH 2, 2010

Theorists may be familiar with Lewin’s Unfreeze-Change-Refreeze model. Chip and Dan Heath, both full-time professors make a compelling case that this model will be seen as equitable to Lewin, Kotter or anyone within academia. However, more people will eventually be familiar with the Heath brothers Switch model.

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My Own Coach

FEBRUARY 15, 2016

It strikes me that there are many leadership style models out there, such as Lewin’s Leadership Styles, Six Emotional Leadership Styles (Goleman, Boyatzis and McKee), Transformational Leadership and The Leadership Challenge (Kouzes and Posner) to name as few. How do you define your organisation’s leadership style?

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Rapid BI

DECEMBER 6, 2012

Lewin Change Model. Lewin Change Model. RapidBI Business Growth Model. Presentation. planning curve. Managing Change. The map of every day experience. Marketing & strategy. Marketing and strategy. Talent Management nine box grid. Talent Management nine box grid. eight step change. Kotter change model. The J-Curve. eight step.

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Great Leadership By Dan

AUGUST 5, 2013

Bruce Lewin , from Four Groups'' Blog : “For public company CEO''s, I''d follow the advice of Eric Schmidt: Absolute profits are going to increase every quarter. If you seek to lead, invest at least 50% of your time in leading yourself - your own purpose, ethics, principles, motivation, and conduct.

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Great Leadership By Dan

APRIL 1, 2013

Bruce Lewin from Four Groups' Blog presents Why is Understanding People So Hard. from valuing what women bring to leadership table.”. The lack of well recognised tools and techniques that help us better understand people through reliable predictions undoubtedly contributes to the fact that understanding people is hard.

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Michael Lee Stallard

JANUARY 2, 2011

More HR predictions from Bruce Lewin, with Reviewing Predictions for HR posted at Four Groups’ Blog. We can’t have a New Year’s Carnival without “best of&# lists and New Year’s predictions : Sharlyn Lauby serves up A Bartender’s Predictions for 2011 posted at HR Bartender.

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Michael Lee Stallard

NOVEMBER 8, 2011

Turner presents Lewin and Historical Traces to Change Management posted at JohnRTurner_HPT_resource. Have you ever thought about how it affects you? Read on to learn how procrastination might be killing your productivity.” ” John R.

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Great Leadership By Dan

NOVEMBER 6, 2011

Turner presents Lewin and Historical Traces to Change Management posted at JohnRTurner_HPT_resource. Janna Rust presents Procrastination and Productivity posted at Purposeful Leadership , saying, "What are you procrastinating with right now? Have you ever thought about how it affects you?

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Frank Sonnenberg Online

JUNE 23, 2020

The concept can be traced back to Kurt Lewin , a founder of social psychology and of management theory. Lewin and his colleagues created “safe spaces” in which groups of employees and managers could speak honestly about working conditions and productivity goals without fear of retaliation or retribution.

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Jesse Lyn Stoner Blog

OCTOBER 10, 2017

Teams move through predictable stages of team development, but how quickly and easily they progress depends on how well the needs of the team are being met during each stage. Teams don’t always move smoothly, and sometimes they can get stuck. Understanding the stages of team development helps you determine where to focus your […].

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 8, 2013

Tamar Lewin of the New York Times reports that the co-founders of Coursera, a leader in the space, want to keep courses freely available to poor students worldwide, because they believe education is a right, not a privilege.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 24, 2017

They followed Kurt Lewin’s admonition that the only way to truly understand social systems is to try to change them. They gained their insights from personally engaging with such systems, not from maintaining a scholarly or clinical remove.

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Jesse Lyn Stoner Blog

JANUARY 18, 2016

Masters of change like Martin Luther King, Jr, Mahatma Gandhi, and Nelson Mandela understood that vision alone is rarely enough. Real change masters leverage the physics of change to bring about transformation.

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Rapid BI

MAY 3, 2021

The quest for power has dominated human history. One of the earliest works on the management of power was written by Niccolo Machiavelli, a political advisor to nobles during the early sixteenth century. In The Prince, Machiavelli laid out a set of principles that would help the nobles maintain their leadership and control over the populous.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 17, 2012

Our co-founder and CTO, Danny Lewin, had suddenly turned from a struggling graduate student to a staggeringly wealthy man. Facebook employees will be locked up for months too, but many employees have worked there long enough to have fully-vested their employee stock options. It would have turned anyone's head.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 7, 2012

Technical founders Tom Leighton and Danny Lewin built the original prototype at their lab at MIT starting in late 1996 before raising capital, so in a sense Akamai's Minimum Viable Product (MVP) was a prototype with the basic architecture and traffic mapping in place that validated algorithms for the founders and investors alike.

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Great Leadership By Dan

JUNE 3, 2013

Bruce Lewin from Four Groups'' Blog presents 3 Barriers to Adaptability and Change. While you might remove a specific problem, you are likely to discover another problem awaits, and you will move from one crisis to another. Instead of focusing on problems, picture the results you desire.”. Prioritising Short Term Profits 2.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 19, 2011

The news had just hit that Danny Lewin — the co-founder of Akamai Technologies, its charismatic CTO, a former commando in the Israeli Special Forces, and MIT mathematics genius who led the company from a math class to an IPO and a market cap of $30 billion — had suddenly died. Then I noticed the silence. People sat alone, mostly.

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First Friday Book Synopsis

JULY 1, 2011

The Prime Solution: Close the Value Gap, Increase Margins, and Win the Complex Sale Jeff Thull Kaplan Publishing (2005) Many of the same core concepts in this book were previously discussed in Thull’s Mastering the Complex Sale: How to Compete and Win When the Stakes are High! However, what we have here is a much [.].

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Change Starts Here

SEPTEMBER 29, 2015

First I found Kurt Lewin’s Unfreeze – Change – Refreeze model. I googled “change management models” and came up with other frameworks. At first, these confirmed my bias to use the ADKAR model. Unfreeze – Change – Refreeze. A nice model, particularly as I could fit ADKAR beautifully within it. Unfreeze (awareness, desire).

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