Scan barcode
Reviews
Fearless Change: Patterns for Introducing New Ideas (Paperback) by Linda Rising, Mary Lynn Manns
cate_zh's review against another edition
4.0
A lot of this is common sense. And the authors freely acknowledge that it will seem like common sense to some people. But seeing the patterns the authors put together, and put in context, was really enlightening.
wolvereader's review against another edition
3.0
One of the main job of a consultant is to drive change. From individuals to organizations, we're asked to make peoples' jobs different through helping them try new technologies, alter their processes, or adopt new habits. Ironically, people who hire us often don't want to change themselves. They want different outcomes without actually doing anything differently. What makes our job difficult is helping them despite themselves.
Enter Fearless Change: Patterns for Introducing New Ideas. This book takes (as the title might suggest) a patterns-based approach to introducing change at an organization. Part One starts out introducing the problem of change, then has a chapter describing what patterns are and how to use them. Next follow a few narrative chapters that illustrate how patterns can be used to effect change. Part Two has a few case studies where real-world changes are dissected and analyzed to show what patterns were (perhaps unconsciously) used. Part Three is the patterns library, including things such as "Ask for Help", "Brown Bag", "Champion Skeptic", "Plant the Seeds", and "Trial Run". Overall, there are 48 patterns, and each is described in detail, including a Summary, a Context, a Problem, Forces, the Resulting Context, and Known Uses (among other things).
Patterns are an approach that is familiar to technologists, and while most of the patterns in this book won't strike an experienced consultant as revolutionary, it is certainly handy to be able to think about them (and plan with them) as discrete, named entities. This book is recommended for anyone new to leading change efforts, as well as for more experienced change agents looking to become more deliberate about their efforts.
Enter Fearless Change: Patterns for Introducing New Ideas. This book takes (as the title might suggest) a patterns-based approach to introducing change at an organization. Part One starts out introducing the problem of change, then has a chapter describing what patterns are and how to use them. Next follow a few narrative chapters that illustrate how patterns can be used to effect change. Part Two has a few case studies where real-world changes are dissected and analyzed to show what patterns were (perhaps unconsciously) used. Part Three is the patterns library, including things such as "Ask for Help", "Brown Bag", "Champion Skeptic", "Plant the Seeds", and "Trial Run". Overall, there are 48 patterns, and each is described in detail, including a Summary, a Context, a Problem, Forces, the Resulting Context, and Known Uses (among other things).
Patterns are an approach that is familiar to technologists, and while most of the patterns in this book won't strike an experienced consultant as revolutionary, it is certainly handy to be able to think about them (and plan with them) as discrete, named entities. This book is recommended for anyone new to leading change efforts, as well as for more experienced change agents looking to become more deliberate about their efforts.
More...