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Power strategy

  • Articulating urgency
  • Distributing power
  • Setting restrictions
  • Distributing resources
  • Forcing loyalty and support
  • Changing players and rules
  • Excluding people
  • Sanctioning behavior

Motivation strategy

  • Articulating ambitions
  • Visualizing attractive future
  • Expressing core values
  • Explicating mission and vision
  • Clarifying tasks and roles
  • Walk your talk communication
  • Rewarding positive behavior
  • Case adoption and story telling
  • Appraisal and assessment
  • Career development
  • Team development

Rational strategy

  • Restructuring and downsizing
  • Business process redesign
  • Outsourcing activities
  • Lean organizing
  • Employing new human resources
  • Renewal of technological systems
  • Changing reward systems
  • Setting rules of conduct
  • Behavioral change programs

Learning strategy

  • Creating learning spaces
  • Leadership development
  • Action learning
  • Experiential learning
  • Appreciative inquiry
  • Appreciating craftsmanship
  • Sharing experiences
  • Communities of practice
  • Learning circles
  • Twinning with partners
  • Sharing experiences

Negotiation strategy

  • Identifying interest groups
  • Investigating power positions
  • Articulating mutual interests
  • Mirroring contradictions
  • Conflict regulation
  • Mediation between parties
  • Using caustic humor

Dialogue strategy

  • Naturalistic inquiry
  • Mobilizing networks
  • Exchanging perspectives
  • Search conferences
  • Future conferences
  • Experimenting with renewal
  • Sharing ideas
  • Disclosing practices
  • Celebrating successes
  • Reflective learning
  • Storytelling
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