Thank you for your comments Stephen. Do you have any links you can recommend for reading more about "Appreciative inquiry" and "Applied Drama" in relation to change management?

@@SusanneMadsen Yes. I will try and post some tomorrow for you. Happy to help

@@SusanneMadsen Try these links kzfaq.info/get/bejne/kN13gb1nmM7OZZ8.html&feature=emb_logo kzfaq.info/get/bejne/i8yFoJBnsJeognU.html Just in case the links don't open, the first one is called An Introduction to Appreciative Inquiry and the second is called A Skeptic's Introduction to Appreciative Inquiry (both KZfaq). For eliciting fresh understandings and ways through impasse I recommend 'Forum Theatre' and 'Object Theatre' which flow from Augusto Boal's fabulous book 'Games for Actors and Non Actors'. Applied Drama has been used for resolving a wide range of impasse from disputes between loggers, coffee growers and indigenous peoples in the Amazon, through to Board Room disagreements. Finally my top recommendation for solution finding is Grid-Group Cultural Theory as developed by Michael Thompson and co workers. I think one title is 'Clumsy Solutions for a Wicked World' or perhaps 'Clumsy Solutions for a Complex World'. Grid-Group Cultural Theory is a breakthrough because it is simple and yet comprehensive. It explains better than any other social theory of which I am aware why we feel, think and act differently through equally rational but conflicting Thought Styles. I teach all of these to MBA students because I find they are very practical. (I have no interest in theory for its own sake.) Students love GGCT especially but they can all be taken into workplaces and used to create rapid change in a non-coercive way. GGCT is especially good at deriving solutions which are unthinkable by any one particular Thought Style. I think you will recognise yourself somewhere in GGCT! Let me know what you think! One of the problems with orthodox change management models is that they were not devised by sociologists (or anthropologists), so they don't progress very far from attractive heuristics (like 3,5,7 or 8-step models) and normative statements about what one OUGHT to do at each stage. They tend to lack detail as to HOW the steps are to be undertaken. AI, Forum Theatre, Object Theatre and GGCT are each clear about HOW. Oh yes there is quite a good vid called Michael Thompson & Mathew Taylor in Conversation kzfaq.info/get/bejne/iNOqkteQu5_Xeps.html Finally for an amazing company that does everything differently (by devolving all decisions to its workforce, take a look at Ricardo Semler and Semco. It is the place where most people would love to work and it is an amazing commercial success too. (You may know of it already of course!) On the whole I can't see the existing 'corporate management' way of doing things surviving. Unfortunately it is ruining UK universities by applying the Hierarchical Thought Style to the exclusion of Egalitarian, Individualist and Fatalist reasonings. I don't think Kotter will save it! I hope the links work for you. If you want illustrations of the four Thought Styles just ask and I will post more links. Your presentation style is very good!

it,s good

Hello Gabor - Kotter's model can be used in any change situaiton, including how to implement change in an organisation.