Change Activist: Make Big Things Happen Fast, 3rd Edition

Why change led by you, energises you

There is a case for personal activism to counteract the workplace powerlessness many of us feel. Most of us just go with what happens, study whatever we feel we might be good at, get a job somewhere that allows some liveable compromise between paying bills and being creative. We don’t ask for too much because who knows, we might get found out as being not especially sure of ourselves.

At different times in my life I’ve come to the daunting realisation that what happens next is up to me. Not my manager, or the new project team working on the strategy refresh. There were times when I had to jump – and I used my activist experience to make it work. It was back to that passion, purpose, plan – the 3P model for ...