Question from Jussi Vusitupa
Great question!
Yes, they can. What can bring that about is what can bring it about on an individual level IE a major crises. What is required for an individual to change…. hopefully to evolve…. is what is required for a group of individuals, an organisation to change, evolve.
Keys:
a. people need to see the reason for changing and the benefits from doing so
b. “ “ “ “ “ costs or negative effects of not changing.
The greater the gap between a. and b., they greater the motivation to change.
c. have the people who are willing to change, co-design and take the steps needed
d. let there be many small and quick “successes” in the change process that all see. Then others can see that the change is possible and positive. Celebrate these successes for all to see.
e. the “leaders” have to live the change. Walk the talk. Make the change themselves.
Observations by business consults: 5%-10% are active change initiators; 5%-10% would prefer to die or leave the organisation than change. The rest follow.
Where radical change is required and people are firmly entrenched in not changing, it can be more expedient to fold up the organisation and start another with people who are committed to the change.
All organizations and those in them need to be dedicated and skilled at evolving. Such organizations will face great difficulty in surviving if they are not. This “dedication and skill” is a key organization resource. It’s not on a balance sheet…. the most valuable resources of an organization aren’t… but it is of vital importance, individually and collectively.
Keep up your own evolutionary changes. Every day decide what you will do next to become more of who you are capable of being. That’s your prime tasks as a human. The more you evolve, the more value you are able to be to others. You win and we all win.
Go for it!!!
