Transitioning People Through Constant Change
By Karen Ferris
If organizations are going to remain relevant, they need to evolve from a time when change was episodic, sporadic or emergent and to a place where it is constant. This is shown in the Evolution Model below.
This is achieved through giving everyone in the organization the capability and permission to be self-organizing so that change is constant, evolving, and cumulative.
Regular readers of my posts will know that I often use a soccer analogy as explanation.
The soccer teams at the top of their game have players who are given both the capability and permission to drive change. Many would claim that players like Cristiano Ronaldo and Lionel Messi have not just improved soccer but have changed it. They have evolved in the face of constant change. The rate of evolution in their goal
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