The Hard Graft of Change: Why some ideas don’t connect
A quick glance in the business section at the local book shop and you would think that stories of transformation are the norm. There is no shortage of heroic leaders with guidelines for success to turn your backward-looking Jurassic organization into a top-flight enterprise. An increasingly common approach to organizational transformation is “grafting†[…]
What makes Corporate Scandals tick & explode?
According to Dr Mark Wexler, a Professor of Business Ethics at SFU, scandals can be force for change. At a CMA evening on the 26th January 2007, Dr Wexler presented a model of how scandals gain momentum describing how information on organizational limitations become amplified into moral outrage. Describing it as a struggle between cats […]



Tom Lawrence, our editor, is the Weyerhaeuser Professor of Change Management at SFU.