Another thought provoking post from Harold Jarche. This subject often pops up within TED radio hour talks when looking at the future of the job market and how changes might impact on us all as commodities within that market
Embracing Perpetual Beta
Harold Jarche put out a great post today, Embracing Perpetual Beta. He answers four questions:
- 1) What are practical steps to create post-hierarchical organisations, particularly in regard to how to distribute power?
- 2) How can we function effectively in a networked world, including how to be a great Connector or Catalyst?
- 3) How can we facilitate / support the development of healthy networks and communities within an organisation and beyond organisational boundaries?
- 4) How can those of us not in senior roles influence those who are to embrace the idea that we are in the networked era and to act to create post-hierarchical organisations?
Friday 20th March Digest
I’ve been following Harold Jarche for some months now and I’ve discovered how to be a more effective learner. This is the focus of his blog, Personal Knowledge Management (PKM). In his most recent post he explores how Helen Bevan is using PKM in the context of NHS transformational change.
There was another good post from Davis Balestracci this week, this time concerning the ‘human factor’ in data collection.
Friday 27th Feb Digest
Just a couple of interesting blog posts and a presentation I’ve come across this week.
http://workingoutloud.com/pharma-executive-works-loud/
http://archive.aweber.com/davis-newslettr/O1L2L/h/From_Davis_Balestracci_.htm
http://www.behaviourworksaustralia.org/wp-content/uploads/2012/11/BWA_Michiefinal.pdf
Change VS Transformation
Having been engaged in change management within the NHS for over a decade, it appears there is a change afoot in the very way we think about and do change. This is best described as a move from change as achieved by incremental steps to one of transformation, or radical change. This movement feels like a response to the increasing complex systems we work in and the increasingly socially networked world we live in. It has an energy that I find addictive and has inspired me to challenge my own approaches to change, using methods I would normally associate with political activism. That is the power of people coming together to understand the world around them, to develop fantastic ideas and undertake collective action to make the world a better a place. This blog is a place for me to collect and share ideas, tools and stories that inspire or challenge my own approaches to how I work. Maybe it will also be a vehicle by which I can work out-load and forge new relationships.
I owe this shift in my own thinking to the excellent work of the NHS Improving Quality Horizons Team and their inspiring white paper: The new era of thinking and practice in change and transformation. They publish the ‘Edge’ which is about ‘making connections between people, ideas and knowledge for transformational change in health and care‘. I recommended you subscribe and follow them on twitter @theedgenhs. They also run the School for Health and Care Radicals.
I thought I’d end by linking to a blog that reflects on the difference between Change VS Transformation.
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