Why Your Best People Are "Resisting"

About this episode

Chris and Mark discuss the challenges of leading change through the metaphor of the Fellowship at Amon Hen.

In this episode of the Make Culture Your Edge series, Chris and Mark double-click on the second pillar of the SightShift culture model, Right Change, using the breaking of the Fellowship at Amon Hen as the running metaphor. The mission didn't change. The vision didn't change. But the structure that carried them up to that point had to fracture. And how each character responded to that fracture is the whole story of leading change.

People in this episode

Host: Chris McAlister

Guest: Mark

Topics covered

• leadership
• change management
• organizational culture
• team dynamics
• storytelling

Keywords

• lead change
• organizational structure
• Fellowship
• Amon Hen
• cultural change

Mentioned in this episode

Books & works: Fellowship at Amon Hen

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