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I am convinced that if the rate of change within an organization is less than the rate of change outside, the end is near.

Content: Quotation | Source: CareerJournal (WSJ) | Subject: Change Management

The biggest obstacle to future change is past success, the strongest motivation is recent failure.

Content: Quotation | Source: eFrog Pond Inc. | Subject: Change Management

When rapid or radical change is called for, executives must turn to the networks within their organization. Key positions in the network mobilize it to flexibly adapt to the exigencies of the moment. Three prototypical patterns emerge. The first pattern is the hub, as in a ‘hub and spoke’ system on a bicycle wheel. This pattern represents an optimal distribution system for centralizing work processes. … [ Read more ]

Content: Quotation | Source: LeaderValues | Subjects: Change Management, Organizational Behavior

The art of leading deep corporate change can be learned. The trick is to help each member of the company discover a new reality.

Content: Article | Authors: Jonathan D. Day, Michael Jung | Source: McKinsey Quarterly | Subjects: Change Management, Organizational Behavior

Bob Nardelli’s pursuit of perfection, 3 billion human interactions per year.

Content: Case Study | Author: Victoria Griffith | Source: strategy+business | Subjects: Change Management, Human Resources | Industry: Retail | Company: Home Depot

We must bear in mind, then, that there is nothing more difficult and dangerous, or more doubtful of success, than an attempt to introduce a new order of things in any state. For the innovator has for enemies all those who derived advantages from the old order of things, whilst those who expect to be benefited by the new institutions will be but lukewarm … [ Read more ]

Content: Quotation | Author: Niccoló Machiavelli | Source: The Prince | Subjects: Change Management, Innovation

No single change methodology fits every company, but there is a set of practices, tools, and techniques that can be adapted to a variety of situations. What follows is a “Top 10” list of guiding principles for change management. Using these as a systematic, comprehensive framework, executives can understand what to expect, how to manage their own personal change, and how to engage the entire … [ Read more ]

Content: Article | Authors: DeAnne Aguirre, John Jones, Matthew Calderone | Source: strategy+business | Subjects: Change Management, Organizational Behavior

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The success stories I am familiar with have involved treating behavioral change as a marketing campaign. They shook the dust off their consumer marketing textbooks and used the classic techniques of brand management and communication and incentives to promote the hell out of the change to the people inside the organization.

Content: Quotation | Source: Context Magazine | Subjects: Change Management, Organizational Behavior

Much of the advice that has been given to corporations about managing change is bad, according to Eric Abrahamson, a professor of management at Columbia Business School. In Change Without Pain, he takes to task the advocates of “creative destruction” and the mantra of “change or perish,” which he suggests has been “overprescribed by gurus for decades.” He argues that adaptive change is most successful … [ Read more ]

Content: Book | Author: Eric Abrahamson | Subjects: Change Management, Organizational Behavior

If you don’t like change, you’ll like irrelevance even less.

Content: Quotation | Source: Leader to Leader | Subjects: Change Management, Personal Development

In our myths about leaders, we often visualize fearless warriors beating out paths to new visions and conquests.

Nothing could be further from the truth. Fear is a survival mechanism, a requirement for life and well-being. While having fear is very different than allowing fear to dictate, fear does exist.

Since virtually everyone has fears, to pose as fearless simply exposes a fear of seeming fearful!

Your ability … [ Read more ]

Content: Article | Author: Arky Ciancutti | Source: LeaderValues | Subjects: Change Management, Organizational Behavior

When discrete techniques (such as JIT, simultaneous engineering, supplier quality audits) are applied to enterprises with neither the philosophy nor the organization to accept them, they fail to produce results. The same is true of process automation or automated information systems. Philosophy and organization must precede technique.

Content: Quotation | Source: Prism (Arthur D. Little) | Subjects: Change Management, Organizational Behavior

The industrial giant’s legendary learning center, Crotonville, has a new assignment: Teach every manager to be a strategist.

Content: Case Study | Author: Art Kleiner | Source: strategy+business | Subjects: Change Management, Organizational Behavior | Company: General Electric (GE)

If you haven’t heard of this best-seller you are living under a rock. I actually have no interest in reading this myself and was never planning to add it to this site’s recommendations, but after reading an interesting analysis of why the book was so successful (Content: Book | Author: Spencer Johnson | Subjects: Change Management, Organizational Behavior

To tear down a factory or to revolt against a government or to avoid repair of a motorcycle because it is a system is to attack effects rather than causes; and as long as the attack is upon effects only, no change is possible. The true system, the real system, is our present construction of systematic thought itself, rationality itself, and if a factory is … [ Read more ]

Content: Quotation | Sources: LeaderValues, Zen and the art of motorcycle maintenance | Subject: Change Management

“In the recently published Intentional Revolutions, A Seven Point Strategy for Transforming Organizations, my co-authors and I have developed a definition of organizational transformation and an approach that increases an organization’s ability to sustain that transformation. In the course of conducting research for the book, we discovered a remarkable similarity in the profiles of senior executives and the roles they played in initiating and sustaining … [ Read more ]

Content: Article | Author: Joan Lancourt | Source: Prism (Arthur D. Little) | Subjects: Change Management, Organizational Behavior

Turning complex issues and opportunities into effectively simple – as opposed to simplistic or easy – constructs is truly the managerial art form of this new millennium. Instead of seeking “best” or “optimal” solutions to managerial problems, organizations and the people who run them have to become more creative about how they manage clarity and simplicity. Spending an extra two or three weeks on making … [ Read more ]

Content: Quotation | Source: strategy+business | Subjects: Change Management, Communication

There are always two parties—the party of the past and the party of the future; the establishment and the movement.

Content: Quotation | Source: MarketingProfs | Subjects: Change Management, Progress

The problem isn’t coming up with good ideas-any manager will tell you-it’s creating an organization that can implement those good ideas and sustain innovation over time.

In this book, a second edition to the popular original, editors Michael Tushman (Harvard Business School) and Philip Anderson (INSEAD) continue to collect best writings on the subject of managing innovation, some current, some that go back decades. A reading … [ Read more ]

Content: Book | Authors: Michael L. Tushman, Philip Anderson | Subjects: Change Management, Innovation