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3 Stages of Change. Unfreezing; Movement; Re-Freezing

Mike Cardus

Lewin/Schein change Model – Summation from ‘ The Corporate Culture Survival Guide ’ Edgar Schein. Multiple forces established by past observational learning + experience and cultural influences tend to maintain the current behavior. 3 Stages of Change. Photo Credit. Stage 1 – becoming motivated to change (unfreezing).

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Leaders Unbalance the Force

LDRLB

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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Leadership Posts from Top Bloggers

Michael Lee Stallard

Steve Roessler gives us five ways to bump up your game with Five Ways to Boost Your Influence posted at All Things Workplace. Becky Robinson (in her new blog) gives us A Bright Thread of Grace posted at Becky Robinson Weaving Influence. Not many think of learning to cope as a critical leadership competency.

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Guest Post: Change Management Models

Change Starts Here

First I found Kurt Lewin’s Unfreeze – Change – Refreeze model. Enclaria’s Irresistible Change model combines parts of many of the other models and adds a focus on personal influence. Build structural influence – develop accountability and communication structures plus whatever is critical to your specific change.

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Grieving for a Colleague: Deep, Silent, and Solitary

Harvard Business Review

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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