It starts with one: Changing individuals changes organizations
According to Stewart Black and Hal Gregersen, Professors at INSEAD, the conventional approach to managing change is backward. Their new book, “It starts with one”, suggests that the conventional approach is “organization-in” – an expectation that if the organization is changed then individual change will follow. Pointing to evidence that suggests that 50-70% of all […]
Changing Hearts & Minds: The Importance of Unlearning
We decided to make a change! Instead of our normal fare of summarizing and translating the latest journal articles on change we decided to focus on a topic – organizational unlearning – and attempt to connect the ideas of a number of different researchers*. Tell us what you think.
You might be thinking that we […]
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.