Change. A book about creating exceptional organisations.

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Change. by Simon Powers

This book is now complete. Thank you so much for your comments and feedback. This has been enormously helpful.

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Thank you

Simon

Change.

The word change can be a verb or a noun. It can also be an instruction or demand. Each of these meanings of the word is relevant for the book.

The book has a full stop after the word. This is deliberate.

Contents

1. Introduction
   The introduction gives an explanation of why I have written this book.
2. The basics of agility
   Provides an alternative view of agility through the eyes of the mindset and the agile onion.
3. Defining attributes of exceptional organisations
   Building upon the basics of agility, this chapter covers the key attributes of what makes organisations successful.
4. A 600-year adventure
   A story about the history of change and what the key ingredients are for a major shift in organisational redesign. This is why agility is happening now.
5. The AWA Playbook
   A high-level walkthrough of the AWA playbook. Moving from the narrative of the 600-year story to the practice of how we can make use of this in our organisations now.
6. Leadership
   Leadership is the largest lever we have to enable change. We always start with the leadership team.
7. Defining the scope of the change: Building Real Teams
   Untangling dependencies and uncovering human systems. Who will be affected by the change?
8. Professional Coaching
   Explore the role that Professional Coaching plays in organisational change
9. Systems Thinking and Systems Coaching
   Thinking in circles takes on a different meaning when considering systems. There is so much we can’t see that trips us up, and this chapter helps us to see more clearly so we trip up less often.
10. Experiments
    The nature of emergence requires us to try things and see what difference they make. We call these experiments, but they are very different that scientific experiments. This chapter explains how the core engine of change is the experiment and what experiments are.
11. Ethics
    Using ethics as heuristics to guide us to the best holistic outcomes. Ethics are our constraints and attractors in the complexity of human systems.
12. Decision making
    This is a rather special chapter in that I have recorded it in a series of 5-minute videos.
13. The future
    What comes next?