If you do not change direction, you may end up where you are heading. ― Lao Tzu
Change Management is Not Impossible!
Still waiting for the world to settle down! I hate to break the news but complexity and constant change is with us to stay. In my change management articles, I discuss strategies you can use to implement change and overcome the resistance of others to your efforts given this tough reality. I also share insights on what it really takes–today–to lead change in your management or leadership role. As a bonus, I have put together a free resource of 15 articles from this blog that explains How to Lead Change, Overcome Resistance, and Improve Employee Performance.
I’ve been reviewing the traffic patterns on my blog this year and one fact is clear. Organizational change is a pressing issue for business professionals right now! My most popular blog articles this year include many that I wrote on the process of leading and managing change. Whether it was Kurt Lewin’s Model (unfreeze, change, [...]
If we don’t change, we don’t grow. If we don’t grow, we are not really living.– Gail Sheehy The saying goes that the only events we can count on for certain are death and taxes. Missing from this short list is the other certain event–change. The pace of change is maddening and increasing all of [...]
Change does not come easy to many people! This can be a challenge to business leaders who need to move their organization in a different direction. I have worked with some clients who were tough-minded and results-oriented leaders. Often, the solution of these leaders to organizational resistance was an either/or strategy of accept the change [...]
Like the penguins residing on this melting iceberg, change is inevitable as John Kotter explains so well in his writings. In business (and life), we must move on as circumstances and forces change all around us. What was once a solid foundation on which we could put our trust (a massive iceberg), now is a [...]
There are few outcomes that are worse for an organization than devoting significant resources and time to an institutional change effort only to have the enterprise revert back to its old way of doing things. These outcomes hurt employee morale and breed cynicism. It also makes employees and lower level managers less committed to the [...]
The words unfreeze, change, and refreeze might sound more like a child’s game than the foundation model for implementing change. These three words are not a child’s game however. Instead, unfreeze, change, and refreeze describe Kurt Lewin’s powerful and simple three-step change model. Lewin’s work on organizational change is well known in college business courses [...]
