During my body pump class yesterday I was mulling over the discussion we had at work last week on resistance to change. The body pump class works on The Rep Effect ... 'In a typical BODYPUMP class you'll perform 800 reps.' It is 'a breakthrough in resistance training that helps create long, lean muscles and a toned, strong physique'. Hmm – is the rep effect adaptable to organisations?
It's definitely worth exploring adapting 'The Rep Effect' for organisational use as we want our organisation to be toned, lean and strong. Even better, The Rep Effect 'is proven to deliver a total body transformation' and like many other organisations we want our organisation to be transformed. We even have a Business Transformation function. There might be a blockbuster management book in this idea.
Shall I write the book? No. I'm already resisting writing the 3rd edition of my book Organisation Design: Engaging with Change, that the publisher has asked if I will do. Will I have to perform 800 repetitions of the word 'no' to convince her? Or is she going to convince me by the 800 reasons why writing a third edition is a good idea?