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Cesar Millan, the Dog Whisperer™, can instantly turn unruly canine terrors into well-behaved pets. Change is the unarguable core of his trade and his abilities are remarkable. It is not so much that he changes dogs, but that so…
I know it’s received wisdom, even catechism that everyone in any organization can and should be bought in to change. I know this is essential to address resistance, often sounding like, “If they only knew better… we can help…
A recent experience crystalized for me an essential, binary nature of organizations: some people look forward, some backward. There ought to and will always be both in any given organization. That there might be all one kind or the other…
Perspective is everything. At least as much as context. This piece began as another view on the “myth” of projects having a 70% failure rate (the root cause for change management discipline by the way). But since the…
“Never let a good crisis go to waste.” – Winston Churchill Change management exists for projects because people tend to not change behaviour—not easily anyway. Its methodologies account for individual comfort and the reluctance or even resistance to disrupt…
Some recent change management threads that challenged and ridiculed the “70% of projects fail” myth got me to thinking. Not about the veracity of the statistic. For that look here. Rather, it got me to thinking about myth itself. The…...
A while back I wrote about and named the 3-Ps of Overcoming Resistance to Change here. I stand by them as they are proven essential ingredients to dealing with resistance to change. I would, however, add a fourth quality that…...
The assertion that “70% of change projects fail” is a statistic repeated so frequently in the domain of organizational change and change management that its origin and specifics have become muddled in the discourse of organizational change. If taken literally,…...
