The Change Ninja Handbook

After lots of training in things like project management, agile change and leadership, Dr Tammy Watchorn discovered none of this really helped as the focus was always on process rather than people. By understanding how people work instead, she soon found she could deliver successful change by stealth with ninja moves.

Table of Contents

Once upon a timeSetting the scene – provides the backdrop for the stories within the book and where the author started the journey. Describes the complexity and fog that is the adventure ahead

How to play
Instructions for playing the adventure game including rules and explanation of life lines and health scores.

Characters
Description of the fictitious characters the adventurer will meet on the journey. One of the main characters is Prof Eddie Obeng. He is not fictitious and much of his teaching is scattered throughout the book. Often referred to simply as the Prof

Challenge 1: Innovation Workshop

Game over: At any point in the book you can make a decision that lands you here. It might be the wrong decision or you might have just decided you’ve had enough and want a new job. You can choose to end your journey here, restart the game or reset the last ‘bad’ decision.

Sam’s Fables Part 1: The professor of changeSam’s fables is a book within a book. A handbook for the adventurer.

Challenge 2: Creating space

Sam’s Fable’s Part 2 Ship ahoy me hearties

Challenge 3: I didn’t sign up for this

Sam’s Fables part 3 Do your homework..

Challenge 4: Well that does look different

Sam’s Fables part 4 That will never work

Challenge 5 Virtually Virtual

Sam’s Fables part 5 Don’t we have a plan for that?

Challenge 6: Out with the old

Sam’s Fables Part 6 The Wasp, the Volcano and the Sting

Challenge 7: Shall we do what we always do?

Sam’s Fables Part 7 What a difference a name makes

Challenge 7: Continued

Challenge 8: Too Serious to Play

Sam’s Fables Part 8 Alien Invasion

Challenge 9: Beating the Drum

Sam’s Fables part 9 Quiz time

Challenge 9 Part 2: Beating the Drum

Challenge 10: I think we should lead this collaboration,

Sam’s Fables Part 10 If it makes sense it’s probably sense making

Challenge 11: Hack to the future

You made it !!!!

Sam’s Fables part 11: Tool kit
A summary of the tools described in the book with a short description of how to use them and a template to use.