Video and Multimedia

This document provides you with video suggestions (along with the web links), for use throughout the change course. 

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IBM Study: Making Change Work – 2.57 minutes
Interesting discussion of IBM study that only 60% of change projects succeed. Discusses factors that seem to increase the chances for success.  For more information, see the following webpage for a link to the IBM report that is the focus of the video: http://www-935.ibm.com/services/us/gbs/bus/html/gbs-making-change-work.html

Social Entrepreneurs: Pioneering Social Change – 9:03 minutes
Video focused on social change through social entrepreneurship. It first focuses on Muhammad Yunus initiation of microfinancing in Bangladesh and talks about how social entrepreneurship has led to social movements that have significantly improved people’s lives. The essential message is that the ability to lead change in society is broadly based.

Did You Know? – 4:55 minutes
Excellent video to visualize the rate of change in the environment, which we all have to deal with. 

Intro to Change Management – 3:28
Intro change management based on the premise that organizations must adapt or die.

The day I stood up alone - 7:20 minutes
Photographer Boniface Mwangi wanted to protest against corruption in his home country of Kenya. So he made a plan: He and some friends would stand up and heckle during a public mass meeting. But when the moment came ... he stood alone. What happened next, he says, showed him who he truly was. As he says, "There are two most powerful days in your life.  The day you are born, and the day you discover why.”

Roselinde Torres: What it takes to be a great leader - 9:19
The world is full of leadership programs, but the best way to learn how to lead might be right under your nose. In this clear, candid talk, Roselinde Torres describes 25 years observing truly great leaders at work, and shares the three simple but crucial questions would-be company chiefs need to ask to thrive in the future.

Margaret Heffernan: Dare to disagree - 12:56
Most people instinctively avoid conflict, but as Margaret Heffernan shows us, good disagreement is central to progress. She illustrates (sometimes counterintuitively) how the best partners aren’t echo chambers — and how great research teams, relationships and businesses allow people to deeply disagree.

Ricardo Semler: How to run a company with (almost) no rules - 21:42
What if your job didn’t control your life? Brazilian CEO Ricardo Semler practices a radical form of corporate democracy, rethinking everything from board meetings to how workers report their vacation days (they don’t have to). It’s a vision that rewards the wisdom of workers, promotes work-life balance — and leads to some deep insight on what work, and life, is really all about. Bonus question: What if schools were like this too?