Archive for March 3rd, 2007

Only free men (and women) can negotiate; prisoners cannot enter into contracts.
- Nelson Mandela
We examined in Session I how our work as change agents always takes place within a context of power relationships. These differences in power have profound implications for the nature of our workand for the process of contracting. Let’s begin by quickly [...]


To create change in organizations, we want to work with all three major components of the Wheel of Change [Wheel of Change for Organizations]:
1. perceptions-emotions-beliefs, which we call Inner Work
2. behavior, which we call Behavior Change
3. external “reality”, which we call, Outer Work
Inner Work:

vision: working with purpose, vision and mission to energize [...]


The Wheel of Change Model [wheel-for-orgs.pdf] asks that you take into careful consideration:
1. perceptions-emotions-beliefs which we call Inner Work
Shifting the way we think and feel; the inner motivations that guide the way we behave.
2. behavior [...]