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Leverage: How to Lead Agile Change

A low-cost, low-risk, low-stress approach to organizational change

Created byDr. Kevin Brinkmann
BeginnerUpdated Dec 23, 2024

What You'll Learn

  • check_circleTell a brief history of organisational change since the 1940s
  • check_circleExplain the fundamental flaw in the "master plan" approach to organizational change
  • check_circleIdentify three ways to change a system
  • check_circleApply nine leverage points for agile change in their organization

About This Course

McKinsey Corporation estimates that 70% of organizational change programs fail. And that’s after they’ve hired groups like McKinsey, paid them a million dollars, invested 12 months, and stressed themselves out.

It’s the “master plan approach,” and it’s broken. There has to be another way.

In my PhD on systemic change, I discovered an alternative approach. It did not exist in any book, but I saw it being practiced by some of the world's best companies. Instead of a master plan, it followed the principles of systems thinking and strategic leverage points:

  • Don’t go big — go small
  • Don’t go high-risk — go low-risk
  • Don’t go expensive — go cheap

Welcome to Leverage: a low-cost, low-stress, low-risk approach to organizational change.

Course Content

5 activities • 14 videos • duration: 1h 30m

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The Problem with Your "Master Plan"3 videos • 9 min
  • videocam1 Introduction
    Duration 3:08
  • videocam2 Perspective
    Duration 2:55
  • videocam3 Diagnosis
    Duration 3:55
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Change the Parts3 videos • 22 min
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Change the Interactions3 videos • 28 min
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Change the Purpose3 videos • 22 min
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Conclusion2 videos • 6 min

Your Instructor

Dr. Kevin Brinkmann

Strategy Advisor | Management Consultant | Antifragilist

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As the founder of a leadership & strategy consultancy, Dr. Kevin helps visionary organizations find anti-fragile solutions to complex problems. With a PhD in change leadership, Dr. Kevin helps executives navigate uncertainty and create the future. As a thought leader, his capacity-building programs and strategic management tools have been used by The World Bank, European Union, Accenture, EY, PwC, Canon, Mott MacDonald, Internal Revenue Service, and the World Health Organization.

Credit Information

Is this course eligible for my CPD requirements as a Canadian CPA?

Provincial regulators of CPAs in Canada do not require that independent providers of CPD be approved to offer courses. Instead, individual CPAs are responsible for assessing whether a CPD activity meets their requirements, and may take activities from any source provided those requirements are met.

Every course offered on LearnFormula is delivered by a qualified subject matter expert or learning organization, and advances learning objectives that are relevant to the responsibilities or professional competencies of Canadian CPAs. All activities on LearnFormula are quantifiable in terms of hours, and are also verifiable, in that users receive documented evidence of their attendance via a certificate of completion after finishing a course (and this certificate is stored by LearnFormula indefinitely). Nearly 100,000 Canadian CPAs successfully satisfy their CPD requirements via LearnFormula on an annual basis.

What Students Are Saying

4.6 out of 5
Student's Choice
46 reviews
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    Ronald M.
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    WOW, so simple and amazing. The stories are great, thank you.

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    Thomas H.
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    This was great. I liked the real life examples for each of the principles/ leverage points discussed.

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