Perpetual Transformation: Practical tools, Inspiration and Best Practice to Constantly Transform Your World

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Change vitality: How to lead for continual transformation

DEBORAH ROWLAND

Twenty years ago, I launched what has now become a regular cycle of empirical research into what it takes to lead big complex change well. The initial research inquiry, Is Change Changing? carried two questions. On the cusp of the new millennium and dawn of a digital, globally interconnected age, was the nature of change itself — and how to lead it — changing? But more than that, by simply inserting a comma between the two words, ‘change’ and ‘changing,’ could we replace the notion of change as a singular event with its recognition as a continual state of being?

Perpetual transformation is no new concept. It was 2500 years ago that Greek philosopher Heraclitus notably ...