Organizational Change: An Action-Oriented Toolkit
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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Seth Godin on the Tribes We Lead – 17:24 minutes
One of the TED Talks – many of which have relevance to a change course. This one focuses on emergent change through networks of people connected (often through social media) with ideas that resonate with them.
David Logan: Tribal Leadership – 16:36
This video focuses on five kinds of tribes that people naturally form and how they influence behavior.
How Organizations Change – Henrik Marten. - 6.05 minutes
This final installment focuses on how to enhance an organization’s ability to learn and change. Matters of the fear of making mistakes, leading by example, rewarding mistakes so that lessons can be learned from them and change advanced.
Positive Work Cultures and Leading Change – 3.20 minutes
Patrick Dixon speaks on how to lead by communicating meaning and connectedness to advance change.
The Importance of Urgency – 10:42 minutes
Harvard Business Interview with Kotter on his book about the need of urgency and how it relates to org. change.
Caly Fiorina: the Dynamics of Change and Fear – 3.54 minutes
Fiorina talks at Stanford about the impact of fear on enabling change, the power of the status quo and the importance of vision in overcoming these factors.
Five Readiness Factors for Organizational Change – 1:05 minutes
A quick run through of five factors that indicate an organization’s readiness for change.
Margaret Heffernan: The dangers of "willful blindness" -14:38
Gayla Benefield was just doing her job — until she uncovered an awful secret about her hometown that meant its mortality rate was 80 times higher than anywhere else in the U.S. But when she tried to tell people about it, she learned an even more shocking truth: People didn’t want to know. In a talk that’s part history lesson, part call-to-action, Margaret Heffernan demonstrates the danger of "willful blindness" and praises ordinary people like Benefield who are willing to speak up. (Filmed at TEDxDanubia.)
Emily Pilloton: Teaching design for change -16:43
Designer Emily Pilloton moved to rural Bertie County, in North Carolina, to engage in a bold experiment of design-led community transformation. She's teaching a design-build class called Studio H that engages high schoolers' minds and bodies while bringing smart design and new opportunities to the poorest county in the state.
Conformity - Dead Poets Society movie scene - 2:10
This is a scene about conformity from the movie 'Dead Poets Society' starring Robin Williams as the teacher at a traditionalist school. I love the retort by Charlie 'Nuwanda' Dalton character at the end of the video.