Change Kaleidoscope: Change through a contextual lens
Management textbooks are full of strategies on how to assess your current organizational position and to help you develop a vision for the future but they provide very little advice as to how to get there, according to Julia Balogun, Professor of Strategic Management at Cass Business School.
At a CMA Centre Seminar at the Segal […]
Tamper-evident Organizational Change
What do you do with customers who tamper with your products? The immediate response is often to call the lawyer. Federal Express were quick off the mark to shut down Jose Avila who came up with an idea of selling FedEx furniture and Disney banned Jim Hill as soon as they heard of […]
Catalytic Converters: “Good enough†social change
Innovation in the social sector is notoriously difficult. Tackling social issues in new ways depends on the cooperation and coordination of a diverse range of organizations where there is often conflict over both the ends and the means. (See our post on Swimming with Sharks for a discussion of the trials of interorganizational collaboration.) The […]



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