From Frameworks to Sense-making
Six sense-making strategies to get yourself and your organization unstuck. Stop installing frameworks and start diagnosing what's really going on.
About the Book
Organizations don't fail because they lack the right framework. They fail because they're stuck in a cycle of superficial thinking — installing processes instead of understanding their system.
The 6 Big Ideas aren't a prescriptive playbook. They're sense-making models designed to help you diagnose what's happening in your organization and respond thoughtfully. Navigating complex adaptive systems requires that we try something, see if it works, and then try again if it doesn't.
This deliberately incomplete guide gives you just enough structure to start exploring — and enough freedom to make the ideas your own.
Use the 6 Big Ideas to sense-make and diagnose what's happening in your organizational system. Understand before you intervene.
Use the Elements of Change to convert your insights into deliberate action. Then explore again to see what happened.
What's Inside
Six sense-making models to help you diagnose, navigate, and respond to organizational change. Use them individually or combine them to match your context.
Optimization vs. Evolution. Are you making things faster, better, and cheaper? Or are you elevating beliefs and behaviors? Know which strategy your situation actually needs.
From superficial thinking to personal awareness. Every transformation rides through waves — understand which wave you're in and what it takes to move forward.
Leadership Agility, Change Agility, and Delivery Agility. Most organizations over-index on delivery frameworks while ignoring the leadership and change capabilities that enable them.
Why do people resist change? Usually because they weren't part of defining it or it's mismatched with their purpose. Learn what makes change stick — or fall apart.
People, Strategy, Structure, Process, Technology. Your organization is an interconnected system. Pulling one lever affects the others. Think holistically, not in silos.
Self, Stance, Big Ideas, and Tools — the art and science of change. Who you are as a human matters more than the framework you install. Balance is everything.
Why This Book
These aren't step-by-step instructions. They're models to help you see your situation more clearly and respond with intention. There's no wrong way to use these ideas.
At 88 pages, this guide gives you just enough to start. It's designed to spark your thinking, not replace it. Your context matters more than any framework.
Ken and Jason's combined decades of consulting, coaching, and leading transformations are distilled into practical models you can draw on a whiteboard tomorrow.
The "Extra Goodies" chapter maps real organizational problems — delivery, process, leadership, transformation, and change — to which Big Idea to start with and why.
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