ReducingResistance to Change

Using Organizational Design

Dawna Jones

From Insight to Action

Quick SurveyStageSituationStyleSensation

Source of Resistance

How does the design shape engagement?

ContextBig Picture Pressures

Activate Deeply Held Creativity Transcend Adversity

Quest

Collision between Structure & People

Putting collisions to good use

What if?

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.

Effects of Climate Change

“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

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

Engineering, Google

Exponential Growth

Unexpressed Talent

Dominant WorldviewPersistent World View

Purpose is to Make a Profit

Stability

Power in AuthorityChange pushed Initiative controlled

Built to Resist

Hiring new employees 63 days in 2015; 42 in 2010

(Unless you employ Agile-Lean)

IT Delivery slow

Decision Making Slow

Running Hard - Get to Same Place

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Linear-Engineered

Involuntary Risk

Missing Moving Picture

Pushed

Missing Big Why?

Narrow Frame

=Cut Costs; Fear

=Sabotage GrowthIgnore Intuition

=Near sighted1

1920’s=67 years

2015=15 years

Change driven by flawed assumptions

Achieved inside existing world-view (OD+CM)

Uncontrollable can be controlled

Traditional design-too expensive

Change in worldview

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 and society…

…within this web of life resides enormous intelligence,

much of which remains untapped. - J.Bragdon

www.lampindex.com

PROFIT FOCUSED

QUALITY of LIFE FOCUSED

What makes a company alive?

Aware-Self +ContextNetworked-informal/formal

Flexible

Able to rewire in response to change

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Frugal-preserve value

Future-values based

“A machine can be controlled;

a living system can only be disturbed.”

-Fritjof Capra

Activating Inspired Change

Living Systems Worldview

Opening #1: Purpose Drives ProfitMeaningful Goal-Sense Making

intellect intuition creativity

“How can we save energy & INCREASE profits while INVESTING

in renewable energy?”

Cut CO emissions by an absolute 10% from global production sites

within 10 years

2

Purpose: Systemic

Health

Opening #1 - Think Big

Decision to source Humanely killed beef from US

Opening #2: Use Collisions to Pivot

Backlash from cattle lobbyOpportunity to connect supply chain

to changing values.

Opening #3: Everyone Responsible Responsible Leadership

Decision Making

ImpactInitiative

Open interaction

AutonomyAlignment

Relationship Equity

Trust

MindfulnessResilience

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

More RARE EARTH METALS in electronics tossed in landfills than in all

known GLOBAL reserves.

Every single social and global issue of our day is a business opportunity in disguise.”

Peter Drucker, social ecologist

$70 Billion

“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

“Learn to see. Realize that everything is connected

to everything else.” - Leonardo da Vinci

Success Factor: Mindset

BANKRUPTCY

100 years old 140, 000 1998-$27B

Jan.12, 2012

Started Oct.201016months=$25M April, 2012=$500M

Facebook buys =$1B

From 2-13

Awareness Skills

How to… ‘Tickle’

DESIGN

PRINCIPLED

VALUE-BASED

Building Adaptivity to Changeinto the Design & Responsibilities

Design from the Start

Self-Managing DIYIS not!!

HolacracySociocracy 3.0

LiquidO

Morning Star Self-managementOpen Participatory Design - OPO

Fractalism-Matt Black Systems

Customized to FIT

IS

Scaling AGILE MINDSET

85% of leaders not equipped to navigate complexity

What’s important?

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“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

…turn that adaptive spirit loose

What say…

CultureCharacter

Awareness

ToolsRelationships

Ethics

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