Supporting adaptive change
Thanks to
Bob Carlton at
The Corner for pointing me off to
this article in a recent
Fast Company that quickly summarizes a lot of what we know about change. Among other insights, it points to the crucial role of emotions, and also the reality that people will often respond better to radical change which makes a clear difference, than incremental change that they cannot see. Finally, the article points to Lakoff's work on reframing. One piece it doesn't point to, though, which I suspect is also useful in this context, is Heifetz's notion of "adaptive change." So... what would these ideas mean for communities of faith? I think
Scott Cormode has some useful ideas in his exploration of the gardening metaphor for church leadership.
Posted by hessma at May 3, 2005 06:48 PM