Mike Cardus

MARCH 5, 2023

Popular change management frameworks include the ADKAR model by Prosci and the Lewin Change Model. On the other hand, organization development is a long-term and systemic approach to improving an organization’s effectiveness and achieving its goals.

ADKAR 78

ADKAR Lewin Organization Development 78

LDRLB

SEPTEMBER 8, 2011

Develop a short vision with the coalition and practice communicating it. Create short-term wins. 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 102

Kotter Lewin Short-term Open-book 102

LDRLB

SEPTEMBER 8, 2011

Develop a short vision with the coalition and practice communicating it. Create short-term wins. 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 99

Kotter Lewin Short-term Open-book 99

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 24, 2017

Freud had a term for such moments, when troubling ideas and emotions can no longer be swept under the carpet. They followed Kurt Lewin’s admonition that the only way to truly understand social systems is to try to change them. He called it the “return of the repressed.”

Lewin 8

Lewin Politics System Long-term 8

Great Leadership By Dan

JUNE 3, 2013

Bruce Lewin from Four Groups'' Blog presents 3 Barriers to Adaptability and Change. Prioritising Short Term Profits 2. Short Term Thinking 3. While you might remove a specific problem, you are likely to discover another problem awaits, and you will move from one crisis to another.

Leadership Development 249

Leadership Development Development Leadership Lewin 249

Change Starts Here

SEPTEMBER 29, 2015

First I found Kurt Lewin’s Unfreeze – Change – Refreeze model. Create short term goals. 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. Unfreeze (awareness, desire). Change (knowledge and ability).

ADKAR 60

ADKAR Management Early Adopters Rogers 60