Leading Beyond Change

16 ∎ CHANGE

Evolving Your Organization

For want of a nail, the shoe was lost.

For want of a shoe, the horse was lost.

For want of a horse, the rider was lost.

For want of a rider, the battle was lost.

For want of a battle, the kingdom was lost,

And all for the want of a horseshoe nail.

—Anonymous

Beyond Change

We hope that at this point any notion of linear, ordered, systematic change has completely left your system. The understanding that change is really about emergence is happening simultaneously on many levels and aspects of organizational systems.

Evolutionary leaders embrace the complexity and surrender to the emergence of what is coming. No one is in control. We are all co-creating the future together. It’s a messy, organic, nonlinear, ...