Fundamentals of Level Three Leadership

133. Jim Clawson’s Model of Change

Concept

We began this module by asking you to make a diagram of your personal model of change. If you did this, you had to stop and think about your VABEs, about what change is, and how the change process works. The premise there, and I believe it is very important, is that people learn better and deeper when they plumb their own understanding, bring that to Level One (paper or voice) and then discuss it. I always asked my students/participants to come to class having formed opinions about the issues, analyses, and action plans for every case. I noted recently from reading a biography of Winston Churchill³³ that he used that principle to educate himself: Churchill’s practice “... was not to read any particular ...