Video and Multimedia

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GM's Edgar Schein on Corporate Culture - 3:18
Thoughts on corporate culture.

Change – Deal With It – 0:37 minutes
Short, humorous video of squirrel overcoming barriers.

Stakeholder Analysis Video – 9:00 minutes.
Video of University of Cincinnati students running an actual stakeholder analysis meeting with members of the community of Madisonville. Provides an example of how to both do the analysis and manage the meeting process with the stakeholders.

The Importance of Learning in Organizations  - 10:04 minutes
HBR interview with David Garvin and Amy Edmondson about the importance of becoming a learning organization. Focus is on creating, acquiring, interpreting, transferring and retaining knowledge and then acting on that knowledge by modifying what they do, and enhancing the rate of learning. It builds the foundation for successfully changing in response to external changes. 

Leadership and Emergent Change – Lessons From the Dancing Guy 2:58 minutes
Interesting short video showing leadership, early adopters and emergent behavior. Demonstrates the importance of how the process begins, the critical importance of early adopters with the courage to follow, and what happens once the tipping point. 

News Report on The Zappos Co – a high commitment workplace – 9:16 minutes
Interesting story reported on Nightline, of a high commitment work culture in a call center and distribution environment.  Could be used to set the scene for the call center case (Travelink Solutions) contained in the book. It started with a high commitment culture which then was seriously damaged through subsequent management decisions. 

Real Time Strategic Change  - 4.03 minutes
Publisher Berrett-Koehler’s Change Authors Series - How to involve and engage the entire organization in large scale organization change in a rapid fashion - BK Business Book by Robert W. Jacobs.

Eric Liu: Why ordinary people need to understand power - 17:15
Far too many Americans are illiterate in power — what it is, how it operates and why some people have it. As a result, those few who do understand power wield disproportionate influence over everyone else. “We need to make civics sexy again,” says civics educator Eric Liu. “As sexy as it was during the American Revolution or the Civil Rights Movement.” Far too many Americans are illiterate in power — what it is, how it operates and why some people have it. As a result, those few who do understand power wield disproportionate influence over everyone else. “We need to make civics sexy again,” says civics educator Eric Liu. “As sexy as it was during the American Revolution or the Civil Rights Movement.”

Linda Hill: How to manage for collective creativity - 17:17
What's the secret to unlocking the creativity hidden inside your daily work, and giving every great idea a chance? Harvard professor Linda Hill, co-author of "Collective Genius," has studied some of the world's most creative companies to come up with a set of tools and tactics to keep great ideas flowing — from everyone in the company, not just the designated "creatives." Creative abrasion that leverages diversity and conflict, creative agility to refine ideas, and creative resolution are seen as key attributes of organizations that successfully innovate. Leadership in these organizations act as social architects and create the innovative space that allows innovation occur.

Simon Sinek: How great leaders inspire action - 18:04
Simon Sinek has a simple but powerful model for inspirational leadership all starting with a golden circle and the question "Why?" His examples include Apple, Martin Luther King, and the Wright brothers ... (Filmed at TEDxPugetSound.)