Leading Blog

MARCH 5, 2020

Quinn on the connection between changing a system and understanding it: “Kurt Lewin argued that we cannot really begin to understand a system until we try to change it. He understood that individual as well as collective scripts would stay hidden until the normal way that the organization operates is challenged.

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LDRLB

SEPTEMBER 8, 2011

There is perhaps no change model more cited than John Kotter’s eight-stage change process. Kotter outlined an eight-stage process that leaders should take their organizations through when implementing change: Create a sense of urgency. Talk openly about the change vision and apply it to all aspects of operation.

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Kotter Lewin Short-term Open-book 102

LDRLB

SEPTEMBER 8, 2011

There is perhaps no change model more cited than John Kotter’s eight-stage change process. Kotter outlined an eight-stage process that leaders should take their organizations through when implementing change: Create a sense of urgency. Talk openly about the change vision and apply it to all aspects of operation.

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Kotter Lewin Short-term Open-book 99

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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P&L Lewin EBITDA Ries 13

Change Starts Here

SEPTEMBER 29, 2015

I am a process guy by training, but I make my living from change management. I work for a large organisation and I spend my life trying to fix things: processes, systems and policies – those sorts of things. Changing systems and processes is easy, but unless you can change people’s behaviour as well then your new process is worthless.

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ADKAR Management Early Adopters Rogers 60