Change as play

A positive view on changing and renewing organizations

Play division

Organizing play division

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Question I. Imagine that you are asked by top management to select and collect people to build a leading coalition. What would be your way of working and what criteria would you consider as useful? Question II. How important are leaders when strategic and cultural change needs collective action from most people in the organization? […]

Coach Carter

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Former student Ken Carter returns to his troubled old school, Richmond High, as head coach of their unsuccessful basketball team. But Carter doesn’t just want to make them successful: he wants to change their lives and help them get to college. Carter’s team deliver success on the basketball court, winning the regional championships. But when […]

Moneyball

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Unable to compete with his wealthy rivals, Oakland Athletics General Manager Billy Beane shakes up the professional baseball establishment by adopting statistical analysis as the basis for player recruitment and selection. Exposing himself and his team to ridicule, Beane puts everything at risk and achieves something unprecedented in baseball history.

As it is in Heaven

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A successful international conductor suddenly interrupts his career and returns alone to his childhood village in Norrland, in the far north of Sweden. It doesn’t take long before he is asked to come and listen to the fragment of a church choir, which practices every Thursday in the parish hall. Just come along and give […]