Scott Berkun, Berkun Consulting, leads a conversation about change. This presentation is from the 2009 O’Reilly Tools of Change conference, which we filmed.
Talking about change is easy – making change happen in most organizations is ridiculously hard. But there are things we can learn from the history of technology, political revolution and change, and there is a playbook we can reuse to help us avoid easy mistakes and seemingly popular, but actually self-defeating approaches. This fun, interactive, and entertaining talk will prime you for leading change, enhancing your skills for motivating, and making change happen in your world.
There is no change until someone stakes their reputation on doing something different. You cannot make change without power.
As Scott says, “Even grassroots change depends on the choice of an individual to use their power to make something take place. If you want to make innovation happen, you need to create opportunities for people to succeed underneath you. Your job becomes not being the star.”
We’ve all experienced idea killers, “We don’t do that here. We tried already.” Have a response for these idea killers.
