Changing How We Think About and Lead Change - by john seely brown

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Changing How We Think About and Lead Change 20 th C. Push Economy => 21 st C. Pull Economy

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Changing How We Think About and Lead Change

20th C. Push Economy => 21st C. Pull Economy

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Our Context

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S-curve

stable over decades. S-curve

18th, 19th, 20th C infrastructure

50 yrs The era(s) of relative stability

Skills lasted a lifetimeCareer paths were clearInstitutional architectureslasted for ever.

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The Big Shift Happened

then

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21st C infrastructure: no stability in sight

S-curve

driven by continual exponential advances in computation

stable over decades. S-curve

18th, 19th, 20th C infrastructure

50 yrs

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Stocks =====> Flowsprotecting/delivering

authoritativeknowledge assets

participating in knowledge flows

In a world of increasingly rapid change,the half life of a given stock or skill is

constantly shrinking.

canons/genresrelatively fixed

genres fluid:transmedia,

participatory cultureworld building

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“Knowledge is no longer that which is contained in space, but that which passes through it, like a series of vectors, each having direction and duration yet without precise location or limit.

In the future, it seems, there will be no fixed canons of texts and no fixed epistemological boundaries between disciplines, only paths of inquiry, modes of integration, and moments of encounter.”

An epistemological shift

Carla Hesse:

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The challenges we faceare both fundamental and substantial.

We have moved from an era of equilibrium to

a new normal-an era of constant dis-equilibrium.

Our ways of working,ways of creating value

& ways of innovating must bereframed.

A Belief

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But we have gone thru dis-continuties before.

Yeah but not easily. Why is changeso hard and will this time beeven harder.. Are we just too set in our ways, our mindsets??

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but what blocks onefrom seeing new patterns?

to produce aproduct family

to see new patterns

time

The Competency Trapworks against change!

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Glenalvon - 1880s

An Example of a Competency Trap

Clipper Ships

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France ll

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Preussen

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Thomas W. Lawson

Competency traps Reigns Supreme

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{ }one’s ownan institution’s beliefs• changing

brick wall

The Great Challenge

to create action

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Egads, I am not an expert on change. I just stumble along.

Bear with me. First some personalexamples and then some moregeneral principles.

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Designing Evocative Experiences- beyond the cognitive

• engagement• participation• emotion• gut

What! … I thoughtlogic reigned supreme.

No, no, narratives do.

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When User Hits Machine –changing the corporate Xerox mindset

Never underestimate the power of a narrative

listening to the dialogue

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Fine – jsb but how did you bring about systemic change inside your own organization?

And systemic change was neededand will always be needed.

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S-curve

S-curve

Skills, Social Practices & Needed Servicesevolve around new technologies

50 yrs

21st C infrastructure

rapid set of punctuated moves

18th, 19th, 20th C infrastructure

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Getting PARC researchers to embrace change.

But I am my specialty, I can’t change.

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What??? Don’t you knowwe are the best!! Why doWE need to change?

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Cool – but how do you know you are still the best?

And can’t you be even better??

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some small steps – but no brilliant movesi) Became a meta research project – what wouldconstitute truly legitimate measures of value created.

ii) Started a year long process of key folks in the labvisiting labs that were doing new breakout research(nano-machines, in particular)

iii) Asked all researchers giving talks to report backon what they personally learned.

iv) Started an ambitious 50 person summer internprogram where part of their job was to needle us our ‘old’ tools and methods.

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some small steps – but no brilliant movesi) Became a meta research project – what wouldconstitute truly legitimate measures of value created.

ii) Started a year long process of key folks in the labvisiting labs that were doing new breakout research(nano-machines, in particular)

iii) Asked all researchers giving talks to report backon what they personally learned.

iv) Started an ambitious 50 person summer internprogram where part of their job was to needle us our ‘old’ tools and methods.

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some small steps – but no brilliant movesi) Became a meta research project – what wouldconstitute truly legitimate measures of value created.

ii) Started a year long process of key folks in the labvisiting labs that were doing new breakout research(nano-machines, in particular)

iii) Asked all researchers giving talks to report backon what they personally learned.

iv) Started an ambitious 50 person summer internprogram where part of their job was to needle us our ‘old’ tools and methods.

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some small steps – but no brilliant movesi) Became a meta research project – what wouldconstitute truly legitimate measures of value created.

ii) Started a year long process of key folks in the labvisiting labs that were doing new breakout research(nano-machines, in particular)

iii) Asked all researchers giving talks to report backon what they personally learned.

iv) Started an ambitious 50 person summer internprogram where part of their job was to needle us our ‘old’ tools and methods.

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But how do you get folks from different disciplines and different locations

to work toward each other towardnew ways of working.

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Authorizedthe structure

around the work of organizations

Emergentthe structure

within the workof organizations

Authorized and Emergent Practices

Social softwaresupports theemergent

Traditional ITsupports theauthorized

The social fabric supports knowledge sharing & meaning

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Warning – the following will seem simple and perhaps weird.

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A wired coffee pot

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Fostering and capturing brainstorming

Copying from wall to web

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nyc San Francisco

Connecting the commonswith wide band video

over the internet

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Jack Hidary

“How often do you get out of your comfort zone?”

And how can you do this effectively?

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Breaking out of Epistemic Silos:

exploring the white space in trulysocio-technical, multi-disciplinary ways

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PAIR: PARC ARTIST IN RESIDENCE PROGRAMTechnologies of Imagination

Pairing Artists and Scientists, One on One,Using Technology as a Common Language.

Rich

Gol

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The Big Picture

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“change has to be managed with a profound appreciation of stability”

The Rhythm of ChangeQuy Nguyen Huy & Henry Mintzberg

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Change 1.0

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“Because dramatic change alone can be just drama, systematic change by itself can be deadening, and organic change without the other two can be chaotic, they must be sequenced and paced over time, creating a rhythm of change. “

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The Bigger Picture

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Change 2.0

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20th Century Focus: State Craft

21st Century Need:State Craft meets Street Craft

Or, perhaps,rethinking of the academy.

A Guiding Example

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MINORITY REPORT

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VISIONVISION IS ABOUT SIGHT,

PERCEPTION,AND THE IMAGINATION

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VISIONIT IS ABOUT

WORLD BUILDING(THE FULL CONTEXT)

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VISION

MICRO-NARRATIVES

META-NARRATIVEChange 2.0

AP-J

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VISION AND THE ROLE OF META-NARRATIVE

COMPELLING STRATEGICALLY AMBIGUOUSPOSITIVE +ASPIRATIONAL

A key take away.

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VISION

MICRO-NARRATIVES

META-NARRATIVE

MECHANISMS

Change 2.0

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VISION

MICRO-NARRATIVES

META-NARRATIVE

social networks MECHANISMS

Change 2.0

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MICRO-NARRATIVES

Change 2.0Meta-NARRATIVE

world building

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MECHANISMSTransmedia

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MICRO-NARRATIVES

MECHANISMSTransmedia

World Without Oil (ARG)

Change 2.0Meta-NARRATIVE

world buildingHarry Potter

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Structural holessocial networks

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Change 2.0 sketches by Ann Pendleton- Jullian; other sketches by Susan Haviland

Thank YouBy

Ann Pendleton-JullianJohn Seely Brown

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Thank You