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 oneâ€, 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.