Transformation Bombing

About this episode

The episode discusses how transformation has been misused in business contexts and questions the approach to transformation itself.

In this episode of The Intentional Spill, Yvette and Frank take aim at how transformation has been hijacked and turned into a crisis response, a reorg strategy, or a last-ditch effort to save a sinking ship. Sparked by a recent Harvard Business Review call to “stop doing transformation,” the conversation asks a deeper question: What if transformation isn’t the problem, but how we’ve been co-opting it is? Drawing from natural systems, foresight practice, and lived experience, the episode refr...

People in this episode

Hosts: Yvette, Frank

Topics covered

• transformation
• crisis response
• reorganization
• business strategy
• natural systems

Keywords

• transformation
• crisis response
• reorganization
• business strategy
• Harvard Business Review

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Harvard Business Review

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