In 500 B.C., Heraclitus famously said, “Change is the only constant.” Yet, 2,500 years later, we’re still terrible at it, which makes me wonder if even that is a constant. Curious about why we struggle so much with change, I asked ChatGPT how many unique reasons it could provide. Its response: “Hold my beer!”
In this talk, you will learn what ChatGPT revealed after I handed its beer back. We’ll then explore some fundamental reasons for why change and transformation initiatives fail so often and introduce a simple, practical approach to overcome these challenges, helping you accomplish more meaningful and lasting change, more consistently.
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By sharing practical insights and methods, this talk will equip you with tools to better deal with change, and succeed at it more often.
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Helgi Björgvinsson is a senior Enterprise Architect with more than 15 years of experience working with architecture, strategy, leadership, and change in complex organisational environments across both the public and private sectors.
He has been actively involved with the Intersection Group for over five years and has been a member of its core group for more than two. Helgi is the principal author of the EDGY Enterprise Scan, where he focuses on helping organisations surface misalignment early, create shared understanding, and design change based on a holistic view of the enterprise.