links for 2009-06-29

• Web Site Story – CollegeHumor video
  (tags: humor video facebook twitter comedy cool college)
• Change techniques
  # Boiling the frog: Incremental changes may well not be noticed.
  # Burning bridges: Ensure there is no way back.
  # Burning platform: Expose or create a crisis to get things going.
  # Challenge: Inspire them to achieve remarkable things.
  # Coaching: Psychological support for executives.
  # Command: Tell them what to do.
  # Destabilizing: Shake people of their comfort zone.
  # Evidence for change: Cold, hard data to show need for change.
  # Evidence stream: Show them time and again that the change is happening.
  # Education: Learn them to change.
  # Facilitation: Use a facilitator to guide team meetings.
  # First steps: Make it easy to get going.
  # Golden handcuffs: Keep key people with delayed rewards.
  # Institutionalization: Building change into the formal systems and structures.
  # Involvement: Give them an important role.
  # Management by Objectives (MBO): Tell people what to do, but not how.
  # Management causality mapping: Helping a team see its own role.
  (tags: change change_management enterprise20 technique adoption transition)