Hiding the Orange Power Cord
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New professionals come into a new workplace fired up to make an impact and create change, and often struggle when running into institutional roadblocks, traditions, and opposition. Using the story of the orange power cord, paired with the IDEO model for design thinking, this presentation will seek to outline how change can be made without tipping the proverbial sacred cows that appear to be "in their way."
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- This is from an Onion article. But the message that it sends is an important one. An orange power cord serves its purpose, but it’s distracting. And if left without much to detract from it, its presence can take over.
- Ken Krogue wrote in Forbes in 2012, “A new hire can spot an orange power cord in plain sight.” They can see what doesn’t look right, because they’re new to a situation and are forced to scan their environment in a way that older employees don’t each day. However, after 6-8 weeks in a new role, these things can fade from your sight. They don’t stick out unless they cause a problem. And THAT is a problem.
- New professionals tend to do the opposite. Armed with a degree and an inflated sense of the change you’ll be able to make, they enter situations guns blazing, prepared to rip every orange power cord they see, out of the wall. But an office, a department, an institution, is an ecosystem. And the actions you take here, as with any ecosystem, has side effects. How do you navigate change without upsetting other members or elements of the ecosystem?
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