Rip the Band-Aid Off Quickly
Too often, management teams that face the daunting challenge of corporate transformation don’t move far enough, fast enough, or broadly enough to truly reposition their businesses. Instead, they implement half-cures that can be worse than the disease: round after round of restructuring, strategic redirection, or layoffs, none of them sufficient to heal the wounds. Author Stan Pace uses powerful examples to show that the companies … [ Read more ]
Content: Article | Author: Stan Pace | Source: Bain & Company | Subjects: Change Management, Strategy
The Six Roles of the Corporate Renegades
This article identifies six renegade roles that fall evenly into two categories: (1) Reactive Renegades, and (2) Proactive Renegades. The Reactive Renegade roles include: The Detective, The Instigator, and The Reactor. The Proactive Renegade roles include: The Visionary, The Architect, and The Builder. In case after case experience has shown that while one individual could play more than one renegade role, the success stories resulted … [ Read more ]
Content: Article | Author: Kelvin F. Cross | Source: CEO Refresher | Subjects: Change Management, Organizational Behavior
Do You Have Change Fatigue?
Many corporate change efforts are greeted with rolling eyes from employees. Harvard Business School professors David Garvin and Rosabeth Moss Kanter help identify the keys to a successful company transformation.
Content: Article | Authors: David Garvin, Nick Morgan, Rosabeth Moss Kanter | Source: Harvard Business School (HBS) Working Knowledge | Subject: Change Management
Leading Change: The Human Challenge
This article takes a look at the psychological factors affecting people’s reactions to change and implications and suggestions for implementing organizational changes.
Content: Article | Author: Marc T. Frankel, Ph.D. | Source: CEO Refresher | Subjects: Change Management, Organizational Behavior
Sustaining Organizational Change
Magnitude of organizational change ranges from minimal change or maintaining status quo to revolutionary enterprise-wide re-engineering. This magnitude of change is a function of the vehicle used to drive the change. It is important to understand the capabilities of various vehicles and use the most appropriate one for the desired level of change. Our research indicates that maintaining status quo or seeking … [ Read more ]
Content: Article | Author: Raj Phalpher | Source: CEO Refresher | Subjects: Change Management, Organizational Behavior
Magnitude of Organizational Change
Drivers of Organizational Change
The Four Emotional Stages of Change
How often do we make false assumptions about other people based on our own culture and experiences? And even more importantly, how often do we fail to recognise and understand how individuals deal with grief and change in their personal lives or at work.
Content: Article | Author: Anne Riches | Source: CEO Refresher | Subjects: Change Management, Management
Clemmer Group
Life is change. Growth is optional.
Corollary: If the rate of external change exceeds our rate of internal growth we’re eventually going to be changed.
Content: Quotation | Source: CEO Refresher | Subjects: Change Management, Organizational Behavior
Transformational Leadership in the Context of Organizational Change
While change management depends on leadership to be enacted, to date there has been little integration of these two bodies of literature. The key role leaders play in the change process has been noted by change theorists, yet there is no conclusive research that focuses on this relationship between leadership and change. Recent theoretical research has attempted to integrate change as a contextual variable influencing … [ Read more ]
Content: Article | Authors: Kathleen Watson, Rajnandini Pillai, Regina Eisenbach | Source: ManagementFirst | Subjects: Change Management, Leadership
Conditions for Change Assessment
Considering a major change? Identify potential problem areas first with this quick assessment.
Content: Article | Author: Rick Maurer | Source: CEO Refresher | Subjects: Best Practices, Change Management
No Theory … No Learning
Unless we fully understand the theory or thinking that we held true when we created practices and procedures that we use presently, we will be forever condemned to create different versions of what we have always done.
Content: Article | Author: Rick Tate | Source: CEO Refresher | Subjects: Change Management, Organizational Behavior
The Organization as a Theatre Company
A summary of key points found in the book ‘Change Is the Rule
Practical Actions for Change: On Target, On Time, On Budget’ by Winford E. “Dutch” Holland, Ph.D.
Content: Article | Author: Rick Sidorowicz | Source: CEO Refresher | Subjects: Change Management, Organizational Behavior
QBQ! The Question Behind the Question
Content: Book | Author: John G. Miller | Subjects: Change Management, Personal Development
Managing Negative Responses to Change
Managing Positive Responses to Change
Another Reason Why Companies Resist Change
A good look at why people resist change, drawing largely from the book “Managing at the Speed of Change” by Daryl R. Conner. Offers more insight on why people resist change than on how to counter the resistance.
Content: Article | Authors: Daryl R. Conner, Jay Marshall | Source: strategy+business | Subject: Change Management
Ian Morrison (consultant and author)
In any revolutionary technology, the pace of change is overestimated in the short run, and the magnitude of change is underestimated in the long run.
Content: Quotation | Source: Knowledge@Wharton | Subjects: Change Management, IT / Technology / E-Business
Getting From Good To Great
James Collins, author of Built to Last, discusses his research into companies that went from good to great (admittedly a small sample size) in this interview with InformationWeek.
Content: Article | Author: Chris Murphy | Source: InformationWeek | Subjects: Change Management, Management
Integrating Knowledge and Process in a Learning Organization
“Technology change management is not an isolated activity but a process that touches many of the socio-technical activities at work in an organization. This bigger picture of technology change management includes business and work processes and technical systems as well as processes related to group dynamics and collaboration. The connection is clear. When we ask people to change how they do their work, as we … [ Read more ]
Content: Article | Author: Linda Levine | Source: @Brint | Subjects: Change Management, Knowledge Management