How well does your firm handle change? Are all departments aligned toward the same vision? Do all employees know what the corporate vision and mission are and how their jobs support those? Does everyone in the organization understand the necessity for change? The world is moving at such a fast pace today that companies can't afford to do business the way they've always done it.
The Centre's research on change is clear. There are many normal reasons for people to logically resist change. As part of our ongoing research as translators and interpretors of Best Practices at the Haines Centre for Strategic Management, we've identified some of the Top 10 reasons why organizational change fails.
- Underestimating the system's complexity.
- Management's change knowledge or skills are missing.
- Lack of accountability throughout the organization.
- Management resistance due to time pressure.
- Change structures are missing.
- Lack of participative management skills.
- Fatal assumptions are made....that it's easy and normal.
- Lack of senior management modeling.
- Poor cross-functional teamwork; turf battles.
- Lack of follow-through and reinforcement.
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