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IMPLEMENTING THE WHOLE SYSTEM TRANSFORMATION: THE WAVES

The leadership team committed during its alignment event to transform the whole system, or roughly six thousand employees in fourteen locations around the world. Rather than engage the whole system at one time, the leaders decided to engage the 20 percent tipping point amount in four waves, with roughly 300 to 550 people in each wave. The wave events were planned for two and a half days and were rooted in the Dannemiller-Tyson formula for change:

Dissatisfaction * Vision * First Steps = Transformation²

Accordingly, each wave included all of these elements with an emphasis, or “thrust”, on one element. This emphasis evolved from wave to wave, building momentum. The process is shown ...