“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 their companies’ transformations – despite the fact that the companies represented different industries and national cultures, and that no two of the transformed organizations adopted the same outward form. This article will provide an overview of our definition and of the strategy we developed, and will draw upon a number of the actual change processes we studied to illustrate the crucial roles played by senior executives in leading their organizations through sustainable transformations.”
Editor’s Note: the bulk of this article is dedicated to explaining the authors’ Seven-Point Resocialization Strategy, which describes how to use the seven ways in which people are taught how to behave to effect change.
Author: Joan Lancourt
Source: Prism (Arthur D. Little)
Subjects: Change Management, Organizational Behavior
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