This is a living collection of resources that I refer to in my Leading Strategy and Change in-house programs. It includes all the resources I refer to in the workshops and additional background reading. You may also find the lists on related topics useful:

• Public Speaking
• Influence
• Leadership
• Conflict

Please contact me here if you would like to discuss how you may go further in this topic, watch my videos about how Executive Coaching can help you or Group Coaching can accelerate your team's effectiveness.

Please use the comments section at the foot of the page to suggest resources you have found useful on this topic and I'll add them for the benefit of others.

If you truly want to understand something, try to change it.

Kurt Lewin

Glass cliffs: firms appoint female executives in times of crisis as a signal of change to investors

Minimum Viable Transformation — Daniel Stillman

We need a new, sustainable approach to change management

When a crisis hits: be resilient and a catalyst for positive change

Organizations Don't Change Behavior, People Do

Leading Change

The irrational side of change management

Change: Principles of Problem Formation and Problem Resolution

How to Make a Switch

Change Management Open Source Project

Behavioral Change Models

wmbridges.com

Kotter: A Revolutionary Approach to Strategic Change

Empower to transform

My take on why goal cascades are harmful and what to do instead

Finishing Strategy

How to frame a strategy to make sure staff back it

The Perks of Imaginary Time Travel

The power of structure: using organization and culture to fuel your business

Driving Organizational Change — Without Abandoning Traditio

The Link between Business and Behavioral Change

26th Annual Global CEO Survey

The State of Organizations 2023: Ten shifts transforming organizations

On Paper It looked Good… But It Failed Because of What Was Disguised

Annual Planning in Uncertain Times: 6 Tactics for Rethinking Your Company’s End-of-Year Exercise

A time-tested strategy for leaders facing a “perfect storm”

Strategy Is Not An Analytical Exercise

Creating a safe space for ZOUD

Participative strategy - "mind the gap"​...

Empower to transform

How did we get back here, again?

Every company is a software company: Six ‘must dos’ to succeed

Toward Fairer Data-Driven Performance Management

From BigCo to Startup: 20 Tips for Evaluating Early-Stage Companies & Making the Leap

Systems Thinking

Achieving Individual — and Organizational — Value With AI

A CEO’s guide to the metaverse

Restructuring Does Not Remove Silos! People Do!

Measuring an engineering organization.

Teaching RenDanHeYi in business schools

Empower to transform

How can we use theory of change in design practice?

We need a new, sustainable approach to change management

Organizations Don't Change Behavior, People Do

How human capital makes or breaks digital innovation

Understanding an organization through formal and informal interactions

Why Change is Hard . . . and Good

Future Studies: Forecasts, Scenarios, Roadmaps, and Pathways

Influence and Organizational Design: Behavioral Principles to Effect Change

Mastering the connection between strategy and culture

Building a Better Transformation

When it comes to changing culture, think small

Why strategy making should not be a secret

Playful Leader, Serious Change

Minimum Viable Transformation

Is Your Change Creating a Flood?

QUESTIONS FOR: Ruth Gotian on The Success Factor

Transformation is personal

Uber: Repaying Technical and Organizational Debt

Why You Should Never Confuse Strategy Work With Management Work

Strategies of Change

The Five Vital Signs of a Scalable Idea and How to Avoid a Voltage Drop

There is more to organisational change than strain, hazard, and harm

How to Drive Innovators for the Common Good

Governance - the overlooked route to transformation: How can we best organise for change?

Think Globally, Innovate Locally

Reflections: Towards a Normative and Actionable Theory of Planned Organizational Change and Development

3 Essential leadership conversations for creative transformation

Entrepreneurship: What matters most

Every Changemaker Should Know These 3 Strategies (But Most Don’t)

The Data-Informed Product Cycle

How does a company create urgency for continuous change

Similar neural responses predict friendship

Scaling Up is a Problem of Both More and Less

How One Big Company Overcame Resistance To Bring About Major Transformational Change

Four Ways to Scale Up: Smart, Dumb, Forced, and Fumbled

Losing from day one: Why even successful transformations fall short

Michio Kaku: As the golden age of silicon comes to an end, Silicon Valley risks becoming another rust belt

Leading Change With a Culture of Experimentation

The Path of Best Resistance

Why Pivoting People Is a Strategic Priority

Positive Change with appreciative questions

Opposition to equality, diversity, and inclusion from the perspective of change resistance

The Skills of Successful Change Leadership

2 Things About Managing Through Change (and 3 Things Others Are Asking)

Overcoming Obstacles to Successful Culture Change

Culture’s Role in Successful Technology Transformation

How change helpers succeed: pay attention to your own process

Why Pivoting People Is a Strategic Priority

Digital transformation in the wake of a crisis: focus on people

Leadership at a Time When Every Company Is a Tech Company

10 Attributes of Culture That Make It So Difficult to Change

Why HR can make or break any M&A deal

The new possible: How HR can help build the organization of the future

This Is What A Harvard Economist Warned Me About A Decade Ago

Transformation is personal

Nokia’s Reinvention Was Emotionally Driven

Bias busters: Don’t steer your strategy by the wrong star

Change Management Is a Strategic Skill HR Must Master

Three Meaningful Strategies for Managing Rapid Change

Bain: Building Your Own High-Performance Organization

The Digital Change Your Company Needs

Telling a good innovation story

How Effective Leaders Drive Digital Change

What Makes Change Harder — or Easier

The Truth About Behavioral Change

The Acceptance of Change

Future CHROs should be called ‘Chief Change Officers’: Bridgestone CHRO

The Three Questions

Making the Emotional Case for Change: An interview with Chip Heath

Transition as ‘The Way Through

The Pessimist Optimist’s Guide to Change

Taking Stock of 30 Years of Change Management: Is It Time for a Reboot?

Prochaska’s Transtheoretical Model of Change

Draw your future | Patti Dobrowolski | TEDxRainier

John Kotter - The Heart of Change

The Importance of Urgency

Start with Why

John Kotter - Why Hierarchy Doesn't Work for Large-Scale Change

Change alone is eternal, perpetual and immortal

Arthur Schopenhauer