Continuous Change - created from Mind Map

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Metaphore of organization

Analytic framework

Ideal organization

Intervention Theory

Change agent

Ongoing, evolving, and cumulative

1/3 Improvisation

2/3 Translation

3/3 Learning

self-organizing groups induce continuing modification

simultaneous composition and execution

adaption and editing of ideas bypass planned change

creates match b/w ideas and purpose

work & activity: defined by repertoires of actions and knowledge

Learning defined: change in response repertoire

skills and knowledge are altered not actions

Strengthening, not just substitution

Continuity

Scale

Driven by

Associated with organizational culture

Hold changes together

legitamtes nonconforming actions that improve adaption & adaptability

embeds know-how of adaption into norms and values

Micro

can be decesive if at the edge of chaos

doesn't stay small i.e. complexity theory

Alertness

Inability to remain stable

Semistructures between orderand disorder, with only some features being prescribed

Intentional links between present projects and future probes --> reduces discontinuity

1/3 Freeze

2/3 Rebalance

3/3 Unfreeze

Visualize sequence and patterns

capture by cognitive maps, schemes, or war stories

reinterpret

relabel

resequence

use power of attraction

Counterpart of logic of replacement (episodic)

'Show people how to be'

resume 3 metaphores

But more mindfull of sequences

more resilient to anomalities

more flexible in execution

Language

Most powerful interventions occur at the level of everyday conversation

Good conversation

kinds of speech acts

Vocal

Reciprocating

issues-oriented

rational

imaginative

honest

1/5 Assertives or claims

2/5 Directives or requests

3/5 Commissives or promises

4/5 expressives that convey affective state

5/5 declarations that announce a new operational reality

These combine in four different conversations

conversations of change

understanding

performance

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