What Marie Kondo can teach us about change
Posted: Sat Feb 08, 2025 5:46 am
Jo Webb from the UK Data Archive, a partner in the UK Data Service, recently presented a workshop at the IASSIST conference on managing change and found out Marie Kondo is a great example to use.
The programme for the annual IASSIST (International Association for Social Science Information Service and Technology) conference always includes a range of workshops, usually focused on tools for data.
This year, the conference committee invited usa rcs data proposals to run a workshop on change management. My background is in project management, and at the Archive I lead on change management so I was delighted to be invited to facilitate the workshop. It was a lively morning sharing knowledge and best practise with people who really want to get change right.
And here’s some ideas of what we learned that morning.
Marie Kondo has taken over the world.
Attendees for the workshop came from all over the world, but all but one recognised a photo of Marie Kondo.
Marie Kondo was one of Time’s top 100 most influential people in 2015, regularly tops the best seller charts and most importantly is the subject of twitter arguments. Her method is all about change and so what is she getting right?
What does Marie Kondo know about change?
I’m not going to discuss the merits of sock storage (if interested watch this), or get into any arguments about numbers of books people are allowed to have.
The programme for the annual IASSIST (International Association for Social Science Information Service and Technology) conference always includes a range of workshops, usually focused on tools for data.
This year, the conference committee invited usa rcs data proposals to run a workshop on change management. My background is in project management, and at the Archive I lead on change management so I was delighted to be invited to facilitate the workshop. It was a lively morning sharing knowledge and best practise with people who really want to get change right.
And here’s some ideas of what we learned that morning.
Marie Kondo has taken over the world.
Attendees for the workshop came from all over the world, but all but one recognised a photo of Marie Kondo.
Marie Kondo was one of Time’s top 100 most influential people in 2015, regularly tops the best seller charts and most importantly is the subject of twitter arguments. Her method is all about change and so what is she getting right?
What does Marie Kondo know about change?
I’m not going to discuss the merits of sock storage (if interested watch this), or get into any arguments about numbers of books people are allowed to have.