Many thanks for introducing me to the work of Patricia Benner, and the implications that you’ve drawn from it for leaders of organizational change. I have to confess that I hadn’t come across her thinking before reading your recent posts.

I wanted to wait until you’d completed your four-part series before commenting, so that I could get a feel for the ‘whole picture’. Having read all four posts, I agree that the dynamics Benner describes have resonance for people embroiled in change in organizations. So I want to see what parallels there are between the ways in which I’ve described the dynamics of change in Informal Coalitions and the four elements of Benner’s ‘framework’. And also where there might be gaps or contradictions – if any.

It sounds like there’s a post coming on!

Thanks again,

Chris