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Transforming organizations is a complex, fluid endeavor far removed from the rigid, step-by-step processes of traditional change management. 'The 6 Big Ideas of Adaptable Organizations' equips change agents with the insights and approaches needed to navigate this complexity effectively. This book explores six pivotal concepts:
The 2 Change Strategies of Effective Organizations: Delve into the dichotomy between optimizing existing systems and evolving organizational beliefs for profound transformation.
The 5 Universals of Change: Learn why fostering a common purpose and embracing meaningful dialogue trumps creating urgency and seeking buy-in.
The 5 Levers of Change: Uncover how a holistic adjustment across people, processes, technologies, strategies, and structures can catalyze significant change.
The 3 Agilities of Effective Organizations: Discover the critical roles of leadership, change, and delivery agility in ensuring an organization's adaptability.
The 5 Waves of Transformational Change: Understand the evolutionary phases of change, from superficial adjustments to deep, systemic shifts.
The 4 Dimensions of Change: Appreciate the interplay between personal development and the use of change tools to achieve effective and sustainable transformation.
Change agents will gain from this book not just theories but actionable knowledge that melds the art and science of change. Written for agile coaches and seasoned change management practitioners, this book emphasizes discovery-based learning to master the dynamics of organizational change. It's a guide that transforms readers into architects of adaptability, equipped to foster environments where change is not only possible but embraced as a continuous opportunity for growth and innovation.
This description encapsulates the essence of each big idea and emphasizes the practical benefits and broader significance of the concepts presented in the book.
Get the Beyond Change Theatre Book
All organizations are a mess.
Think about how your organization became what it is today. Was there a 45-page PowerPoint deck used at the beginning of the “Build a Giant Bureaucratic Nightmare” initiative?
Probably not.
It happened slowly—through impulsive decisions, reactionary changes to things outside your control, and the daily sediment of well-intentioned choices layered over time. The result? A tangled system of beliefs, behaviors, relationships, and structures that feels impossible to shift… so we slap on another transformation.
Beyond Change Theatre invites you to stop treating change like a scripted performance and start engaging with it as a living system.
This isn’t a book of answers. It’s a sense-making companion. You’ll learn how to notice the patterns underneath organizational stuckness, ask better questions, and find leverage points that actually move things—without pretending there’s a step-by-step formula.
What's Inside:
How to map beliefs, behaviors, relationships and structures shaping your system.
The Transformation Treadmill: How to identify when you're running, but going nowhere and how you can get off the Treadmill.
The 8 Traps of Transformation: Individual and system level traps we fall into that unitentionally reinforce the status quo.
Signal vs Noise: How to wade through the flood of noise in order to find what the real problem is.
System Dynamics: When the system strikes back, it's labled as resistance. It's not. It's the system protecting itself.
Tough Questions & Experiments: Each chapter contains tips from Ken and Jason showing how you can apply the ideas, provided you adapt them to your context.
Change Alchemy: Follow Maya's journey as she uses the ideas in this book to untangle the ACME corporation.