Rethinking Organizational Change: Snowballs or Snowstorms?
Is organizational change like a snowball or a snowstorm? Does it gather mass and momentum as it rolls along, or does it dissipate over time, as the original conditions that energized it are exhausted? The answer to this long-standing question has profound implications for managers attempting to implement and manage change in their organizations.
Conventional research […]
Dining Out on Radical Change
It all started with a discussion at a dinner table. The members of a local church in a US city decided to serve hot breakfasts to homeless people on a Sunday morning. Hardly a radical change in itself but the effects were to ripple through the church and the community. Not only […]



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