In managing change in the workplace it is extremely important to draw the distinction between “incremental change” and “step change”. Whilst the broad principles of leading and managing change are universal it is very important to establish very early on whether or not what you are proposing can be regarded as “incremental change” and realistically [...]
Last month we sent you to an article from Reuters.com and we also sent you a poll question that opened the discussion about workplace dissatisfaction. I promised you some ideas for what you can do about dissatisfied workers. Dont you love the way that sounds? Dissatisfied workers…sounds like their problem, right? Well it is and [...]
The single biggest barrier to effective communication in a change management situation is quite simply the disconnection between the change leader and those who are or will be impacted by the change. Failure reasons in change management are many and varied and well documented. Staggeringly any organisational initiative that creates change – or has a [...]
Last month I told you how FedEx and Northwest drove decisions down. Let me tell you about my own business. It gives me great pride to tell you that we gave our employees all kinds of power back in the 1980s-that was before the idea of “empowerment” became popular. We gave them much more power [...]
Sadly, the success rate of change management projects in todays companies is sobering based on statistics: � 30% success rate � 9% software change proved worth the cost � 31% software change got cancelled before completion � 53% software change resulted in cost overruns The reasons that change efforts so often fail are: � Failure [...]
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