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Leading Reinvention and the Burning Platform Theory: is it Jump or Die?
Suggests that the burning platform may not be the best metaphor since it implies a desperate choice between death and the unknown. Cites research that showed successful change initiatives relied on: 1) a grander vision beyond the immediate problem at hand, 2) a visibly enrolled leadership team, plus 3) communication and accountability that reinforced people’s involvement. No burning platform motivation here
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Cascading Your Vision Throughout the Organization
Recommends that "Leaders need to pay significant attention to and get broad involvement in three stages of the vision creation and dissemination process. First, they need involvement in the creation of the vision and buy-in from the senior levels. Second, when cascading the vision down the organization, they need to allow for real discussion and input. Third, leaders need to track effectively and assess the impact of the vision implementation."
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Leading Change
Contents that the workplace and economic characteristics we face today "call for adaptive, in lieu of status quo, behaviors--not slow adaptation as in the process of evolving, but quick andresponsive adaptation in real time to meet the uncertainties we face." Includes succinct statement of "Seven Deadly Sins" of change management.
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Policy Perspectives: The Burning Platform
Our ability to identify “burning” change issues and separate them from the routine challenges of the day will have a great effect on a stakeholder’s willingness to accept change. Our challenge is to introduce survival anxiety while also lessening learning anxiety, thereby creating a safe environment in which true learning can occur.
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Your ability to identify “burning” change
issues and separate them from the routine challenges of the day will have a great effect on a stakeholder’s willingness to accept change -
Your challenge is to introduce survival
anxiety while also lessening learning anxiety, thereby creating a safe environment in which true learning can occur. - 1 more annotations...
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Delivering Efficient Government Services
Acknowledges that delivering efficiency gains in the public sector is a more challenging business than in the private sector because incentives are less clear, success is more difficult to measure, complexity may be greater, and the need for flexibility is no less. Makes reference to both the advantages and drawbacks of the "burning platform."
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Everyday Innovation, Michael Simkins
I wrote this in 2006, but the suggestions are still valid. I am thinking, however, that I may revise #10 in light of Clayton Christensen's theory of disruptive innovation.
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