Mondays, Am I Right?


Recently I was watching "The Good Place" and together with many philosophical statements, Season 4, Episode 11 (Mondays, Am I Right?) motivated me to write some points of about change management which presented in this episode.

 


Despite the title of this episode which demonstrates the huge pain of working humans (going to work on Mondays 😏), this episode and episodes before this are picturing good examples and lessons of change management and transformation in organizations. Mixing agile project lessons and philosophy with comedy made this concept fun and exciting to learn.

  • We watch how effective communication with all stakeholders makes it much easier and innovative to transform an organization.
  • And how a good and positive intention leads to good planning to include all aspects and stakeholders.
  • And then not only communication but positiveness can change the mindsets of people (in this case even evils)
  • Raising proper awareness about problems, obstacles and the bottlenecks in an organization to the leaders is a difficult (sometimes impossible) thing but finally will make a difference.
  • A precise explanation of project/transformation and how it can benefit all stakeholders is a key to win people's hearts and lead them to be part of the transformation team.
  • Working together with all parties despite their course and nature will bring creative minds in the game and not only makes the transformation faster and cost-effective but also smoother and pleasant. (even so called devils in an organization)
  • Open mindset helps leaders to accept their mistakes, share the lesson-learned with others and ask other teams to help them.

And finally, as this most famous (below) statement of this episode says, we understand how there is always a great need for improvement and transformation from an outdated system or structure to updated versions in organizations and even in our personal life.

Eleanor Shellstrop : The whole book is about how we should try to find rules other people can't reasonably reject, and then he ends it by saying, "The search for how to find these rules will go on forever."

 

Help me if I missed any point.

 

 I wrote this to #share my #viewpoints and experiences regarding #leadership #transformation #cluture of organizations in different aspects and I will be very glad to learn your ideas about this.

 
  https://www.linkedin.com/in/mohsen-derakhshan/

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