Teaching the Caterpillar to Fly
- Ideas on Managing and Leading Change using Square Wheels illustrations.
- http://www.squarewheels.com/content/teaching.html
Organizational Theory - Determinants of Structure
- Article focusing on why organizations have the structure that they do, and a discussion on horizontal differentiation, vertical differentiation, mechanisms of coordination and control, formalization, and centralization of power.
- http://www.analytictech.com/mb021/orgtheory.htm
Organizational Change and Vested Interest
- White paper examining the interrelationship between costs of delay, vested interests and costs of organizational change. Available in postscript and pdf formats.
- http://netec.mcc.ac.uk/WoPEc/data/Papers/dgrkubcen199610.html
Leadership Is An Art
- An ethical, means based, approach to organizational change. A view of organizational change from the prospective of an agent of change.
- http://www.jpc-training.com/change/index.htm
"Cultural Aspects of Systemic Change"
- Article in downloadable format (pdf) describing an underlying scientific basis of a systems approach to integrating cultural and structural learning. Author elaborates a way of understanding culture as a multi-layered pattern of actions, values, and beli
- http://www.well.com/user/dooley/culture.pdf
Change Management: A Primer
- A broad overview of change management - from definitions to the change process.
- http://home.att.net/~nickols/change.htm
"A Whole-Person/Systemic Approach to Organization Change Management"
- A downloadable (pdf format) article discussing a framework proposed for designing organization change initiatives in a way that enables stakeholders to perform parallel (though connected) streams of inquiry and design in both cultural and structural syst
- http://www.well.com/user/dooley/change.pdf