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Code of the Change Samurai Guide

David Williams, a senior manager at Westpac Banking Corporation, will be speaking at the upcoming annual Change Management Forum on getting proactive rather than reactive for long-term success. The one-day forum in Sydney, Australia will include workshops. The code of the Change Samurai outlines 9 tenets for those dedicated to effecting positive change, including swearing fealty to a cause, educating oneself in change frameworks and case studies, embodying virtues like honesty and loyalty, advising younger change practitioners, treating others with respect, contemplating decisions carefully, and accepting one's own inevitable change.

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Code of the Change Samurai Guide

David Williams, a senior manager at Westpac Banking Corporation, will be speaking at the upcoming annual Change Management Forum on getting proactive rather than reactive for long-term success. The one-day forum in Sydney, Australia will include workshops. The code of the Change Samurai outlines 9 tenets for those dedicated to effecting positive change, including swearing fealty to a cause, educating oneself in change frameworks and case studies, embodying virtues like honesty and loyalty, advising younger change practitioners, treating others with respect, contemplating decisions carefully, and accepting one's own inevitable change.

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THE CODE OF THE CHANGE SAMURAI 

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David Williams, Senior Manager, Change and Communications, 
The Westpac Banking Corporation 
 

David Williams will be speaking at the upcoming annual Change Management Forum: 
 
Futuristic Change Management 
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Getting proactive, not reactive for head‐on confrontation and long term success 
One‐day connected forum with workshops 
21 ‐ 22 June 2011, Rydges World Square, Sydney, Australia 

1. Find a cause, or challenge to swear fealty to. A Change Samurai is nothing without a passion to serve: some 
greater entity to which you may dedicate your life. 
 
2. Learn the characteristics of Change and the use of various frameworks. Educate yourself in case studies and 
cultural adaptions. Understand the use of interventions and the strict tenets guiding when and where they 
may be applied. 
 
3. Devote yourself to the seven virtues of bushido: gi (rectitude), yu (courage), jin (benevolence), rei (respect), 
shin (honesty), meiyo (honour), and chugi (loyalty). Strive to embody these virtues in all that you do to direct 
positive change. 
 
4. Swear fealty to your passion for change. Convey your responsibilities with honour as a symbol of your rank. 
Your model for change is called a katana (it is the largest of the Samurai swords) and the interventions that 
you implement are wakizashi (the smallest sword).  
 
5.  Be true to your customer in all things. Strive to do right by them and serve the tenets of honour through your 
duty to them. This does not mean blindly following their instructions, however. If you disagree with your 
customer, strive to persuade them of your point of view with every means available, but be prepared to 
respect their final decision should your efforts fail. 
 
6.  Be a thought leader in the change profession. Become respected as a compassionate teacher of change to the 
young change samurai. Coach those who are struggling to understand the concepts of change.  
 
7.  Treat others with courtesy and respect. Answer force in kind, but do not seek conflict where it can be avoided. 
 
8. Contemplate your actions before reaching a decision. When you have determined a course, do not hesitate, 
but follow through with conviction and certainty. 
 
9. Prepare yourself for your own change. It may come in battle or at the behest of your customer, but when it 
comes, you must meet it head‐on. Meditate a little each day on the subject and accept the certainty of its 
eventual arrival. 
 

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