Several weeks ago I spent too much time in the middle of the night considering a scenario of apparent change resistance. I concluded that not everything that looks like resistance is what it appears.  Rather there was a bigger issue hiding in plain sight; the concept of change indifference/change apathy. As a change leader, the difference is not academic because it impacts how to address the issue. As organizations remold themselves to address the culture and pressures of the 2020s we need to find a path to empower organizations and to improve their craft while at the same time struggling with pressures to contain costs and grow. The solution cannot merely be messaging. 

We also have a visit from Susan Parente. We discuss manipulation and persuasion from the Not A Scrumdamentalist perspective. 

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Re-read Saturday News

The author uses the discussion of Rawlsian theory of justice as fairness to set the tone and table for Chapter 3 of f Development as Freedom by Amartya Sen. The theory “describes a society of free citizens holding equal basic rights and cooperating within an egalitarian economic system” (https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/rawls/). When reading an important and complex book such as Development As Freedom you need to do some side research to fill in some knowledge gaps – I had never read Rawls during my days of reading economics. Rawls suggests that fairness and equality enable individuals to pursue and apply their capabilities based on their choices. Sen defines justice as “the ability of individuals to achieve the lives they have reason to value, focusing on their “capabilities” rather than just their resources or outcomes, essentially prioritizing the freedom to choose and act upon one’s life choices.”  This is known as the Capability Approach. The combination of Rawls and Sen’s Capability Approach fits nicely with the approach most Enterprise Transformation Coaches adopt (at least in theory).  

Previous installments of Development as Freedom by Amartya Sen:

Week 1: Context and Logistics

Week 2: Introduction and Preface

Week 3: The Perspective of Freedom

Week 4: The Ends and the Means of Development

Week 5:  Freedom and the Foundations of Justice

Next SPaMCAST 

SPaMCAST 851 will feature our interview with Mike Paciello. We discussed digital accessibility. If the web is a ubiquitous tool then everyone needs to be able to interact with as little friction as possible. Today that is a dream but it does not have to be.