Seven levels of change

PUBLISHED ON JUN 16, 2017 — LIBRARY

Einstein pointed out that “The significant problems we face today cannot be solved at the same level we were at when we created them.” To get change, different results, we must do the things we do differently. The Sevel Levels of Change framework is divided into seven levels: from the natural, to the impossible. It is a spectrum of continual change and innovation with increasing levels of difficulty.

Level 1: Effectiveness

DOING the right things

Level 2: Efficiency

DOING things right

Level 3: Improving

DOING things better

Level 4: Cutting

Stopping DOING things

Level 5: Copying

DOING things other people are doing

Level 6: Different

DOING things no one else is doing

Level 7: Impossible

DOING things that can’t be done

Book: Rolf Smith - The 7 Levels of Change: Different Thinking for Different Results

Summary:

Figure 1 The seven levels of change by Rolf Smith

Figure 1 The seven levels of change by Rolf Smith