Roundabout
To go left, you have to go right first.
Try this little thought experiment.
Imagine there are three types of changes that you can make:
Option 1) You know it will fail.
Option 2) You know it will succeed.
Option 3) You judge the probability of success at 50%
Surely you don’t want to try something that you know will fail. That would be reckless. So would you choose option two or option three?
How leaders frame their change strategy significantly impacts overall transformation success.
Fundamental transformation happens when you attempt the 50/50’s. This is where most learning will occur. True transformation happens when these 50/50 changes are tried at the individual, team, and organizational levels. Transformations attempted as a series of successful steps (option 2) is a project in aggregate. It does not change anything but only relabels existing roles, processes, and practices using the agile vocabulary.
Option 3 – the roundabout
Fundamental transformation happens when you attempt the 50/50’s. This is where most learning will occur. True transformation happens when these 50/50 changes are tried at the individual, team, and organizational levels.
The scope and impact of change experiments will vary. Still, the fundamental aspect that real change stems from learning about self, us (team), and systems (organizations) remain immutable across the scale.
Focus on learning to change. Overcome the law of unintended consequences with the Roundabout – go right to go left.
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