I highlight how academics encouraged coercive persuasion, manipulation and aggression in the darkside development of leadership.
The Dark Side of Leading Change
How Studying Organizational Change Lost Its Way
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.
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 …
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Did I really claim that organizational change tends to fail? (Notebook No.3)
My personal reflections on assertions that I claimed organizational change tends to fail.
Do 70 per cent of all organizational changes really fail?
Organizational change does not tend to fail and 70% style statistics are sloppy generalizations.
Organizational Change Review Desk YouTube Playlist (updated 06/01/21)
This lockdown playlist has featured my highly opinionated reviews of organizational change literature. If nothing else, I have enjoyed the distraction of this creative process. Critical thinking primarily informs my review choices rather than my reviews. I concentrate on the literature that I appreciate and I celebrate that literature, rather than objectively reviewing it. There …
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Organizational Change Podcasting Adventures
In June 2020, I enjoyed talking with Jane and James as part of their World of Work podcast series (Episode 83). In May 2022, I enjoyed being interviewed by Susanne Evans for her ChangeStories podcast. In December 2022, I enjoyed becoming a podcast interviewer, interviewing Susanne about her PhD. These podcasts can be listened to …
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