When he posted this on the blog, Tom said: “My great friend Bob Stone, among other things former head of the (largely) stealth successes of VP Gore’s re-inventing government program, dug up a paper of mine which he plans to use in his current professorial job. … At any rate, we’re attaching here the paper of mine that Bob’s using. It focuses on the peril of a ‘systems first’ approach to Big Change, arguing that systems are of the utmost importance, but mostly fail … because the organization’s ‘culture’ does not support them. Hence a ‘culture first’ approach is usually/invariably the better bet. The paper is argued via 11 case studies from every setting imaginable.”
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