007 Agent of Change
Dylan Dunnan
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Dylan Dunnan
Principal Program Manager | Driving Scalable Solutions, Cross-Functional Alignment, and Innovation | Expert in Agile Transformations, Playbooks, and Strategic Roadmaps
Tips for the 007 Agents out there with a "License to Change"Have a Clear Problem Statement
Understand 3 Things
- Culture
- Current challenges
- Political Environment
Pick your Targets
- Identify Senior Managers with Skin In The Game
- Communicate The $%!% out of your Strategy
- Communicate with Stakeholders in the hallways or by the water cooler
Disarm & Neutralize
- To win big, you need all the support you can get
- Disarm opponents by proposing to work together
Customize your Brief Case
- What’s the scope of your proposed change and your end-game/strategy (what do you hope to achieve)
- Do you need any resources, and what’s your own capacity
- How feasible is this change (reality check)
- Execution: when you go to execute this change, how much of everyone’s capacity are you going to need to verify your change works?
- Value: Why should we do it? What’s the ROI on this change?
Run it by "M"
- Get executive buy-in. You only need 1 Exec to drink your Kool-Aid to make it happen
Tips to Being An Effective Change Agent
- Be Resilient (a person who can recover quickly when people start throwing mud in your face)
- Be Persistent (tenacious, not relinquishing a position)
- Be Flexible (capable of bending without breaking)
Quotes From Simon Senik
- “People don't buy what you do; they buy why you do it."
- "Great companies don't hire skilled people and motivate them, they hire already motivated people and inspire them.”