Reducing resistance to Change using Organizational Design

1. Reducing
Resistance to Change
Using
Organizational Design
Dawna Jones
From Insight to Action

2. Quick Survey
Stage
Situation
Style
Sensation

3. Source of
Resistance
How does the design
shape engagement?

4. Context
Big Picture
Pressures

6. Activate Deeply Held Creativity
Transcend Adversity
Quest

7. Collision between Structure & People
Putting collisions to good use

8. What if?

9. Mohandas Ghandi
The difference between what we do
and what we are capable of doing
would suffice to solve
most of the world’s problems.

10. Effects of
Climate Change

11. “Historically, if you wanted to
touch a billion people, you had to
be Coca-Cola, GE or Siemens…
Today you can be a guy and gal in a
garage.”
- Peter Diamandis, XPrize Foundation

12. “Each time one paradigm runs out of steam,
another picks up the pace.” - Ray Kurweil, Director
Engineering, Google
Exponential Growth

13. Unexpressed Talent

14. Dominant Worldview
Persistent World View
Purpose is to Make a Profit

15. Stability
Power in Authority
Change pushed
Initiative controlled
Built to Resist

16. Hiring new employees
63 days in 2015; 42 in 2010
(Unless you employ
Agile-Lean)
IT Delivery slow
Decision Making Slow

17. Running Hard - Get to Same Place
By Paul Kehrer (Flickr: Win, Place, Show) [CC BY 2.0 (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0)], via Wikim

18. Linear-Engineered
Involuntary Risk
Missing Moving Picture
Pushed
Missing Big Why?

19. Narrow Frame
=Cut Costs; Fear
=Sabotage Growth
Ignore Intuition
=Near sighted1

20. 1920’s=67 years
2015=15 years

21. Change driven
by flawed assumptions
Achieved inside existing world-view (OD+CM)
Uncontrollable can be controlled
Traditional design-too expensive

22. Change in worldview

23. Company is part
of the living system
Worldview
“Companies are inherently living systems-
communities of people with shared goals -
living and working at the intersection of biosphere a
society…

24. …within this web of life
resides enormous intelligence
much of which remains
untapped. - J.Bragdon

25. www.lampindex.com

26. PROFIT
FOCUSED
QUALITY of LIFE
FOCUSED

27. What makes a company alive?
Aware-Self +ContextNetworked-informal/formal
Flexible

28. Able to rewire
in response
to change
Copyright Walter Baxter and licensed for reuse under this Creative Commons Licence
Frugal-preserve value
Future-values based

29. “A machine
can be controlled;
a living system
can only be disturbed
-Fritjof Capra
Activating Inspired Change

30. Living Systems Worldview
Opening #1: Purpose Drives Profit
Meaningful Goal-Sense Making

31. intellect intuition creativity

33. “How can we save energy &
INCREASE profits
while INVESTING
in renewable energy?”

34. Cut CO emissions
by an absolute 10% from global production sites
within 10 years
2

35. Purpose:
Systemic
Health
Opening #1 - Think Big

36. Decision to source
Humanely killed beef from US
Opening #2: Use Collisions to Pivot
Backlash from cattle lobby
Opportunity to connect supply chain
to changing values.

37. Opening #3: Everyone Responsible
Responsible Leadership
Decision Making
Impact
Initiative
Open interaction
Autonomy
Alignment
Relationship Equity
Trust
MindfulnessResilience

38. We pretend that what we do doesn't have
an effect on people.
We do that in our personal lives.
We do that corporate -- whether it's a
bailout, an oil spill, a recall….
– Brene Brown, in her TED The Power of Vulnerability

39. More RARE EARTH METALS in
electronics tossed in landfills than in all
known GLOBAL reserves.

40. Every single social and global issue
of our day is a business opportunity in disguise.”
Peter Drucker, social
ecologist

41. $70 Billion

42. “Creative individuals are remarkable for their ability to
adapt to almost any situation and to make do with whatever
is at hand to reach their goals.”
- Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi
Making the Inner Leadership
Collective Decision Making Shifts

43. “Learn to see.
Realize that everything is connected
to everything else.” - Leonardo da Vinci
Success Factor: Mindset

44. BANKRUPTCY
100 years old 140, 000 1998-$27B
Jan.12, 2012

45. Started Oct.201016months=$25M
April, 2012=$500M
Facebook buys =$1B
From 2-13

46. Awareness Skills
How to… ‘Tickle’
DESIGN
PRINCIPLED
VALUE-BASED

47. Building Adaptivity to Change
into the Design & Responsibilities

48. Design from the Start

49. Self-Managing DIY
IS not!!
Holacracy
Sociocracy 3.0
LiquidO
Morning Star Self-management
Open Participatory Design - OPO
Fractalism-Matt Black Systems
Customized to FIT
IS
Scaling AGILE MINDSET

50. 85% of leaders
not equipped
to navigate
complexity

52. What’s important?
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54. “We actually contain a built-in
ability to rise above
restriction, incapacity, or
limitation and, as a result of
this ability, possess a vital
adaptive spirit that we have
not yet fully accessed.”
- Joseph Chilton Pearce, author,
human development thinker

55. …turn that adaptive spirit loose
What say…

56. Culture
Character
Awareness
Tools
Relationships
Ethics
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57. Dawna Jones
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