Team Leadership > Toolbox Change is Like a Slinky Posted by Office of Leadership Development, Florida Baptist Convention on Feb 8, 2005, 10:06

Why Change Is Like a SLINKY!

1) You have to take it out of the box to have fun with it.

2) It comes in many styles and colors

3) Somebody has to launch it on its way

4) The course it takes once it begins is entirely unpredictable

5) It routinely gets stuck halfway down the stairs and has to be relaunched. Repeat as necessary.

6) It is messy, noisy, and chaotic

7) Before it is launched, it has stored potential energy. When launched that energy force becomes kinetic energy

8) It rarely lands where you predict.

from Change is Like a Slinky
by Hans Finzel (Northfield Publishers, 2004)
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/1881273687/104-6910354-9043167?v=glance

Here are a few more places to go for even more information about the Slinky. You will find these very useful if you decide to develop a session to teach your people or leadership teams about change using the SLINKY as a visual aid or illustration

http://slinky.org/
http://www.firstpr.com.au/slinky/
http://www.teachingtools.com/Slinky/slinky.html