Overview
Today’s lesson circled around “drivers of change” and “change management and changed leadership”. We talked about what exactly drive change and I realised that it is endless. However, the presentations for the day seems like concern was placed upon competition being the main driver of change. How competition forces one to change to keep up with the times. Then there are those that were concern with humanity change such as the global strategic partnerships between MNEs and NGOs while others were concern about the change of our individual life, a life where there is no privacy.
As for changed leadership and change management, I guess the most important point to know is that people are habitual creatures who do not like to change, especially under harsh orders. Thus, like what prof had mentioned, the only way is to give them ownership of what is going on and make the changes their own decision instead of yours. In my presentation, I mentioned Carlos Ghosn and I believe his method of changed leadership and change management worked really well. He is able to influence people of different background, change the culture and make things work within the given time frame.
Interesting observations
“The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man.” By George Bernard Shaw. I love this quote. It is just peculiar yet logical. The unreasonable one would have been deemed as stubborn but yet these are the people who would change the world. For instance, Steve job could have adapted to the current phone but he decided that he wants the phone to adapt to him and from there, developed iphone.
I believe in this competitive and fast paced society, change is ongoing. Yes, things get obsolete very quickly for instance this laptop that I bought last year is now considered old. Somehow we can relate this to Shahi’s landscape model for technology. When one innovation is at its summit, it will quickly fall to the valley especially when other technologies enabled people to copy the idea. In china, it is said that they are able to copy and reproduce the same product in less than 2 days which is amazing. One thing that strikes me is that if technology innovation is spurred by human’s lack of satisfaction in what they have or is it by profits. Who made us technology hungry in the first place? Would the world be a better place if we were not? Less rubbish will accumulate and reduce the impact of destroying our ozone layer and so on. I’m still sticking to my idea that humans should greatly reduce their consumption and not produce more to tackle the outcome of the consumption.
Key Takeaways
1. Crisis is the key to change since it forces people to of any circumstances to change for the better.
2. The theory of freeze, unfreeze and refreeze. It is a cycle, we stay stagnant, we unfreeze the stagnation by engaging in changed leadership and changed management and then we refreeze when things improve.
Personal rating
7/10 as I was too nervous for my presentation that I did not absorb as much as I want to. =/
Today’s lesson circled around “drivers of change” and “change management and changed leadership”. We talked about what exactly drive change and I realised that it is endless. However, the presentations for the day seems like concern was placed upon competition being the main driver of change. How competition forces one to change to keep up with the times. Then there are those that were concern with humanity change such as the global strategic partnerships between MNEs and NGOs while others were concern about the change of our individual life, a life where there is no privacy.
As for changed leadership and change management, I guess the most important point to know is that people are habitual creatures who do not like to change, especially under harsh orders. Thus, like what prof had mentioned, the only way is to give them ownership of what is going on and make the changes their own decision instead of yours. In my presentation, I mentioned Carlos Ghosn and I believe his method of changed leadership and change management worked really well. He is able to influence people of different background, change the culture and make things work within the given time frame.
Interesting observations
“The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man.” By George Bernard Shaw. I love this quote. It is just peculiar yet logical. The unreasonable one would have been deemed as stubborn but yet these are the people who would change the world. For instance, Steve job could have adapted to the current phone but he decided that he wants the phone to adapt to him and from there, developed iphone.
I believe in this competitive and fast paced society, change is ongoing. Yes, things get obsolete very quickly for instance this laptop that I bought last year is now considered old. Somehow we can relate this to Shahi’s landscape model for technology. When one innovation is at its summit, it will quickly fall to the valley especially when other technologies enabled people to copy the idea. In china, it is said that they are able to copy and reproduce the same product in less than 2 days which is amazing. One thing that strikes me is that if technology innovation is spurred by human’s lack of satisfaction in what they have or is it by profits. Who made us technology hungry in the first place? Would the world be a better place if we were not? Less rubbish will accumulate and reduce the impact of destroying our ozone layer and so on. I’m still sticking to my idea that humans should greatly reduce their consumption and not produce more to tackle the outcome of the consumption.
Key Takeaways
1. Crisis is the key to change since it forces people to of any circumstances to change for the better.
2. The theory of freeze, unfreeze and refreeze. It is a cycle, we stay stagnant, we unfreeze the stagnation by engaging in changed leadership and changed management and then we refreeze when things improve.
Personal rating
7/10 as I was too nervous for my presentation that I did not absorb as much as I want to. =/
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