This post focuses on how evaluating change and change agency debates lost their way. Three frames for thinking about these debates are introduced and differentiated.
How Studying Organizational Change Lost Its Way
Overcoming resistance to change – Five common misunderstandings
Failing to acknowledge the origins of this debate.Biased/judgmental language frames thinking.Stereotyping employees as villains and managers/leaders as heroes.Neglecting relationships between readiness and resistance to change.Underestimating resistance as an organizational change resource. Failing to acknowledge the origins of this debate. The best practice is to go back to the origins of a debate, to understand what …
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Notebook No.3 – Did I really claim that organizational change tends to fail?
Post in 48 Words Business school academics frequently and repeatedly claim that organizational change tends to fail. Addressing these 'failures' informs university leadership and management courses for students and consultancy for organizations. Perversely I am now referenced as the missing change tends to fail 'evidence', this Notebook reflects my increasingly paranoid scream!!! In this third …
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Do 70 per cent of all organizational changes really fail?
Organizational change does not tend to fail and 70% style statistics are sloppy generalizations.
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The plan in the summer of 2019 was a simple one. After 32 years working at Brighton Business School, in later years as a Reader in Organizational Change, I would take a year out. My thinking was that I would rest my body, mind and soul and then in the summer of 2020 take on …
Organizational Change: A Critical View
I recently enjoyed talking with Jane and James as part of their World of Work podcast series. It was good to take a break from gardening and my joy of composting and engage with another of my passions - organizational change. We talked about the scope of organizational change, my attraction to the field and …
Breaking Convention 16th to 18th August 2019 – An Appreciation
My appreciation of Breaking Convention 2019 psychedelic consciousness conference themed around five personal highlights of a fascinating three days.
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