But why wait? Why unleash that level of participation, candor, catharsis, and innovation only once every 365 days? If participatory change is so powerful, why not make it continuous? The knee-jerk response is “We don’t have time.” But I think the more honest answer is “We don’t know how to execute and learn at the same time.” Getting an organization to the point of Pixar, where they’re ready for notes, is hard enough. Keeping it going is something else entirely. That’s one of the reasons continuous participatory change is so rare in mainstream organizations—a lack of willingness to figure it
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Continuous participatory change
