Be Back With You Real Soon

Dear Reader,

The intrepid Change editorial team are currently having a badly needed extended break—conspicuous by our absence just for the moment while taking some space, but still here for you as always!

Expect to be fully back in action shortly with some new thinking on old conundrums, and offering up, experimentally, a fresh approach for starters, running it up the flagpole to see how it flies—though only you can judge. 

Already on the drawing board too are some pretty cool new “adventures in E2.” 

Our most exciting adventures are still to come!  

Can hardly wait to share them with you when you rejoin us after the break—not leaving you behind!—so stay tuned and make sure you don’t miss a word! 😎

We expect to publish here next in four to six weeks’ time. Speaking of missing words, we will be kicking off the new season, after the break, with a piece taking a new little look at a big old subject—the nature of reality—entitled, “Your Way With Words,” which, among other things, looks at the way language maps onto reality and, for the most part, utterly fails to do so.

Meanwhile, last time we landed a huge post on your virtual desk—a long Long Read about culture and epistemology and strategy.  If you haven’t had time yet to read that one, or to read through all of it, which we can quite understand, or if you want to have a read of any other unread previous posts, you have a whole month to yourself to do so with no further interruptions from here. 

And if you have already read that one and feel like taking a deeper dive into the subject of culture change after our last post, and if you haven’t read some of the following ones, here are links to previous posts, right here in the pages of Change, on the subject of rapidly transforming corporate culture, curated from our online archive of 75 Change posts to date:

1. “Reclaiming the Scientific Mainstream,” of which the relevant sections, towards the end, are: “What We Now Know About Change” and especially “Transforming Corporate Culture,” including a key brief excerpt from what was a detailed article and case study re: our approach to rapid culture change which had been researched and written by The Economist Intelligence Unit and published in an Economist Special Report way back in February 1990.

2. A two-part introductory article we published in June 2022, the article with which we kicked off Change, and which was an updated version of a piece first published as a feature article in the BFT (Business and Financial Times of Ghana), in early April 2022 (and was even a BFT “Editors’ Pick,” no less)…:

2.1 “Why Creating Lasting Change Need Only Ever Take You a Few Hours, Part I”

and

2.2 “Why Creating Lasting Change Need Only Ever Take You a Few Hours, Part II”

3. An eight-part, more detailed article published in Oct/Nov 2022)…:

3.1 “Organizational Culture as Hologram”

3.2 “Organizational Culture: the Distribution of Cultural Constraints”

3.3 “Organizational Culture as Context”

3.4 “Why Bother Transforming Organizational Culture?”

3.5 “The Concept of Change”

3.6 “Avenues of Intervention I: Contextual and Filtering Approaches”

3.7 “Avenues of Intervention II: Framing and Utilization”

3.8 “Epilogue: The Science of Effective Action”

We wish you, our subscribers in 30 countries spanning the globe, and each and every one of our faithful readers, a happy holiday weekend (if it’s a holiday weekend where you are), and a happy, healthy and successful month ahead till we see you next. 

Looking forward to that!  

Take care till then.

—The Editors

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