Wise words from Euan. The secret of Enterprise 2.0 success.
.. isn’t to try to make people change … it is to do something that can’t already be done.
Don’t try to get your powerful people to behave differently – they have everything to lose. Don’t try to improve your existing processes – you will be seen to be breaking something.
Focus instead on the things that are desperately trying to happen but aren’t and the people who are desperately trying to connect but can’t. Do things that make the impossible possible and your success rate will soar.
Seems to be more and more to the point with the 21st Century skills approach to education. There’s loads of technical solutions to possible problems. But there are far fewer problems that people have isolated and said “Actually, that needs to be fixed and we could do it like so.”
If anyone knows of any educational “I had this problem and I fixed it with this tool” sort of list, I’d love to hear about it.