Hole in the Floor
When change is dropped through the hole in the floor, we are naturally put into a position to push change.
Hole in the Floor vs traditional thinking
Two different assumptions about how change should work.
Lean Change
We can still make the most of co-creation, and we can use modern tools and practices to execute the change in an agile way.
Traditional Change Management
The leaders want this change. We have to do it so we can't co-create or do this in an agile way.
This is a metaphor for change when the 'thinkers' drop the change onto the 'doers'. This is a common pattern in enterprise organizations or organizations with tall, hierarchical structures.
This idea is inspired by Jerry Weinberg's fantastic Becoming a Change Artist book. The story is probably familiar. A leader reads an article in CIO magazine on the plane while coming back from overseas meetings and upon arrival emails the change agent department and says "we need to do a digital transformation"
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