All in Change Management

Pigs on the Wing

The history of change management is replete with theories and models that have been given an existence and permanence that is divorced from reality. While originally grounded in good research these models develop into grossly over-simplified process maps that give a sense of false confidence to managers that they are in control. The models become pigs on the wing.

Obscured by Clouds

Engaging with continuity and gaps, the regular and irregular, and the local and global through imagination has been most important for me in seeing how change flows. The clouds will always obscure our vision. Assuming the clouds away doesn’t work. They always reappear.