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Change
This section includes articles on change, and on creative thinking.
Serious Creativity
by Edward de Bono
on the de Bono Group site
In this article Edward De Bono writes about techniques to help in creative
thinking and in group processes, including about his "thinking hats" system.
Six Thinking Hats - looking at a problem or decision from all points of view
by Jane Warwick
part of a series of articles on the dare2dream site
This short text provides useful additional ideas about thinking hats
(see article listed above).
Toolbox for Change [pdf document]
by David Pitonyak
one of a set of articles on the Imagine site
"Reclaiming Purpose, Joy, and Commitment in the Helping Profession"
The toolkit includes the following sections:
"Its about relationships""Wake
up to the people right next to you" "Drive fear from the workplace" "Make
joy a goal"
"Develop
a vision"
"Get
organised
/ Stay organised" "Listen, learn, help, lead" "Tell stories"
Leading with an Open Heart
by Ronald A. Heifetz and Marty Linsky
one of a set of articles on the Leader to Leader Institute site
Ronald Heifetz and Marty Linsky have written excellent books on leadership and
change. This short article introduces some of the main ideas that are explored
in detail in their writing.
"To meet adaptive challenges, people have to go through a period of painful adjustment.
Leading people to make these changes is risky, because you are asking them to
absorb various forms of loss -- asking them to out and out give up something
in the interests of something to be maintained, to be conserved, or to be gained.
They may have to go through a period of refashioning loyalty to the people to
whom they feel beholden or of feeling disloyalty to their own roots. Or you may
be asking them to go through a period of experiencing some incompetence as they
fashion new competencies and sources of confidence."
Change Management - The Columbo Theory
by Gene Bellinger
One of a set of articles on www.systems-thinking.org
This article is a good place to start before reading other articles by Gene Bellinger
Adaptive Change: What's Essential and What's Expendable [Note: this link may currently be broken.]
(interview: Claus Otto Scharmer interviews Ronald Heifetz)
one of many interviews on Dialog on Leadership
Good places to look for more
The normalisation/SRV page of this site.
The person centred planning page of this site.
The independent advocacy page of this site.
The Leader to Leader Institute site
The www.systems-thinking.org site
The Dialog on Leadership site