The Company Road Podcast E5 Jaimes Nel - Change Activism: When to Ditch the Process for the Freedom that Unfolds
“So a lot of what I think about when I'm doing this in an organisation is that we're not just working in an organisation, we're working with a group of people that are members of a society that are members of a species on this planet that's in trouble. And we need to make space to talk to each other about what we want this society to be, because we've gotta make decisions”
Jaimes Nel
In this episode you’ll hear about :
- Front-Loading the Problem-Solving: Starting strong; intense early-stage problem-solving simplifies complex transformations.
- Cross-Cutting Strategies: Merging strategies across aspects; uncovers capabilities that drive transformative goals.
- Long-Term Visioning: Beyond short-term; envision change's ripple effects and broad context impact.
- Decisive Balancing of Actions: Blend top-down and ground-up, as well as narrow to wide focus for effective change management.
- Catalytic Conversations: Scaling via collective decisions; accelerates a shared understanding and builds more adaptable organisations.
Key links
The 4 Modes of Strategic Change https://pathventures.io/writing/4modesofstrategicchange/
De Bono’s thinking hats https://www.debonogroup.com/services/core-programs/six-thinking-hats/
Design Thinking https://www.interaction-design.org/literature/topics/design-thinking#:~:text=Design%20thinking%20is%20a%20non,solutions%20to%20prototype%20and%20test.
Dave Graeber & David Wengrow https://www.penguin.com.au/books/the-dawn-of-everything-9780141991061
MCU - Marvel Cinematic Universe https://www.marvel.com/movies
Sunrise Movement https://www.sunrisemovement.org/
Occupy Wall Street http://occupywallst.org/
Jobs to be done framework https://jobs-to-be-done.com/jobs-to-be-done-a-framework-for-customer-needs-c883cbf61c90?gi=954a91ec6435
Path Ventures https://pathventures.io/
About our guest
Jaimes Nel (https://www.linkedin.com/in/jaimesnel/) founded Path (https://pathventures.io/) in 2021 to help organisations play the long game through design-led strategy. He began his career designing for the early web, and gone on to develop a practice applying thinking from the social sciences to strategic change.
Jaimes was Head of Insight for pioneering service design agency Livework in the early years of service design practice.
He’s worked on service transformation for brands such as the NHS, BBC, Aviva, Johnson&Johnson, Ebay, GOV.UK / HMRC and led a transformation design team at Westpac in Australia, delivering their digital mortgage service.
About our host
Our host, Chris Hudson (https://www.linkedin.com/in/chris-hudson-7464254/), is a Teacher, Experience Designer and Founder of business transformation coaching & consultancy Company Road (www.companyroad.co)
Chris considers himself incredibly fortunate to have worked with some of the world’s most ambitious and successful companies, including Google, Mercedes-Benz, Accenture (Fjord) and Dulux, to name a small few. He continues to teach with Academy Xi in CX, Product Management, Design Thinking and Service Design and mentors many business leaders internationally.
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