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 […]
Fundamentals: Avoid Change Pathologies by Checking Your Foundations
Organizations engaged in continuous change paradoxically require a foundation of stability according to Tom Lawrence, Bruno Dyck, Sally Maitlis and Michael Mauws*. Managing continuous change is not the same as managing a project or change program - it is about developing a capacity which can deal with environmental shifts, new competitors and disruptive technologies.
They argue […]



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