Change as Play
When I first saw Boonstra’s “Organizational Change as Collaborative Play” (2019), the title left me skeptical. I read it anyway, and I’m glad I did. Boonstra offers a credible alternative to top-down, plan-and-push change. Using “play” as the core metaphor, he reframes change as a collective search in which people co-create a desirable future through […]
A Case for Evidence-based Organizational Change
Many popular change models, like Kotter’s eight-stage process and Prosci’s ADKAR, lack robust empirical testing and validation. For example, Kotter’s eight-stage process, while widely praised and applied, has limited direct empirical support. Most of the evidence for this model comes from Kotter himself, and it is frequently used as a post-hoc framework to explain case […]