Leading change through innovation requires strategic leadership that creates ongoing strategic change. Successful change combines top-down and bottom-up approaches to build sustainable capability for change and learning. Organizational change involves disruption to the status quo and can make people feel loss of control, competence, and identity. Leaders must address these feelings and guide people through the journey of change from initial fear and resistance to eventual acceptance and commitment.
2. âGod will not change peopleâs fate if they do notâGod will not change peopleâs fate if they do not
change it themselvesâchange it themselvesâ
(Al(Al--Qurâan, ArQurâan, Ar--Raâd: 11)Raâd: 11)
3. LeadershipLeadership There is probably no topic
more important to business
success today than leadership
ď´leadership occurs among people
ď´involves the use of influence
ď´is used to attain goals
Different leaders behave in different ways â style, need, situation
4.
5. Nature of Leadership
⢠The ability to influence people toward the attainment
of organizational goals.
⢠Leadership is reciprocal, occurring among people.⢠Leadership is reciprocal, occurring among people.
⢠Leadership is a âpeopleâ activity, distinct from
administrative paper shuffling or problem-solving
activities.
⢠Leadership is dynamic and involves the use of power.
6. What are the challenges of leadership, Change
and innovation?
ď Strategic leadership creates the capacity for ongoing
strategic change.
ď Components of strategic leadership:
â Determining the organizationâs purpose or vision.
â Exploiting and maintaining the organizationâs coreâ Exploiting and maintaining the organizationâs core
competencies.
â Developing the organizationâs human capital.
â Sustaining an effective organizational culture.
â Emphasizing and displaying ethical practices.
â Establishing balanced organizational controls.
7. ďSustainable competitive advantage relies on
creativity and innovation.
ďCreativity is the generation of a novel idea or
What are the challenges of leadership, Change
and innovation?
ďCreativity is the generation of a novel idea or
unique approach to solving problems or
crafting opportunities.
ďInnovation is the process of creating new
ideas and putting them into practice.
8. ďLeadership responsibilities for the innovation
process:
â Imagining.
â Designing.
What are the challenges of leadership, Change
and innovation?
â Designing.
â Experimenting.
â Assessing.
â Scaling.
9. ď In highly innovative organizations âŚ
â Corporate strategy and culture should:
⢠Emphasize an entrepreneurial spirit.
⢠Expect innovation.
⢠Accept failure.
What are the challenges of leadership, Change
and innovation?
⢠Accept failure.
⢠Be willing to take risks.
â Organization structure should:
⢠Be organic.
⢠Have lateral communications.
⢠Use cross-functional teams and task forces.
10. Building an Organization
1. Education and leadership
development is the effort to
familiarize future leaders with the
skills important to the company
and to develop exceptional leaders
among the managers you employamong the managers you employ
2. Perseverance is the capacity to see
a commitment through to
completion long after most people
would have stopped trying
3. Principles are your fundamental
personal standards that guide your
sense of honesty, integrity, and
ethical behavior
11. The Components of Organizational Alignment
Vision
Capabilities
⢠Technical
Culture
⢠Norms
Structure
⢠Span of control
⢠Team composition
⢠Hierarchy
Systems
⢠Accounting
⢠HR
⢠Technical
⢠Leadership
⢠Norms
⢠Shared values
⢠Sales
⢠IT
13. Factors Used to Measure Organizational Performance
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14. Organizational Health
⢠Indicators of organizational health from Matthew Miles:
â Goal focus.
â Communication adequacy.
â Optimal power equalization.
â Human resources utilization.
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â Human resources utilization.
â Cohesiveness.
â Morale.
â Innovativeness.
â Autonomy.
â Adaptation.
â Problem-solving adequacy.
15. Shaping Organizational CultureShaping Organizational Culture
â˘â˘ PassionPassion, in a leadership sense, is a, in a leadership sense, is a
highly motivated sense ofhighly motivated sense of
commitment to what you do and wantcommitment to what you do and want
to doto do
â˘â˘ Leaders also use reward systems,Leaders also use reward systems,
symbols, and structure among othersymbols, and structure among other
means to shape the organizationâsmeans to shape the organizationâsmeans to shape the organizationâsmeans to shape the organizationâs
cultureculture
â˘â˘ Leaders look to managers they need toLeaders look to managers they need to
execute strategy as another source ofexecute strategy as another source of
leadership to accept risk and copeleadership to accept risk and cope
with the complexity that change bringswith the complexity that change brings
aboutabout
16. Recruiting and Developing Talented Operational
Leadership
ď New leaders will each be global
managers, change agents, strategists,
motivators, strategic decision makers,
innovators, and collaborators if the
business is to survive and prosper
ď Todayâs need for fluid, learningď Todayâs need for fluid, learning
organizations capable of rapid
response, sharing, and cross-cultural
synergy place incredible demands on
young managers to bring important
competencies to the organization
18. Structure
Twentieth Century
⢠Bureaucratic
⢠Multileveled
⢠Organized with the expectation
Twenty-First Century
⢠Nonbureaucratic, with fewer
rules and employees
⢠Limited to fewer levels
⢠Organized with the expectation⢠Organized with the expectation
that senior management will
manage
⢠Characterized by policies that
create many complicated internal
interdependencies
⢠Organized with the expectation
that management will lead,
lower-level employees will
manage
⢠Characterized by policies and
procedures that produce the
minimal internal
interdependence needed to serve
customers
19. Systems
Twentieth Century
⢠Depend on few performance
information systems
⢠Distribute performance data to
Twenty-First Century
⢠Depend on many performance
information systems, providing
data on customers especially
⢠Distribute performance data⢠Distribute performance data to
executives only
⢠Offer management training and
support systems to senior people
only
⢠Distribute performance data
widely
⢠Offer management training and
support systems to many people
20. Culture
Twentieth Century
⢠Inwardly focused
⢠Centralized
⢠Slow to make decisions
Twenty-First Century
⢠Externally oriented
⢠Empowering
⢠Quick to make decisions⢠Slow to make decisions
⢠Political
⢠Risk averse
⢠Quick to make decisions
⢠Open and Candid
⢠More risk tolerant
21. Managers vs. Leaders
Covey, Stephen R., The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People, pg.101
Kotter, John P., Leading Change, pg.165
22. Leadership versus Management
Management
PromotesPromotes
stability, orderstability, order
and problemand problem
Leadership
Promotes vision,Promotes vision,
creativity, andcreativity, and
changechangeand problemand problem
solving withinsolving within
existingexisting
organizationalorganizational
structure andstructure and
systemssystems
changechange
MM LL
Takes care of where you areTakes care of where you are Takes you to a new placeTakes you to a new place
23. Managers vs. Leaders
⢠Managers know how to
plan, budget, organize, staff,
control, and problem solve
⢠Managers deal mostly with
the status quo
⢠Management is a bottom
⢠Leaders create and
communicate visions and
strategies
⢠Leaders deal mostly with
change⢠Management is a bottom
line focus: How can I best
accomplish certain things?
⢠Management is doing things
right
Leaders deal mostly with
change
⢠Leadership deals with the
top line: What are the
things I want to accomplish?
⢠Leadership is doing the right
things
24. Management and Leadership Compared
Source: Kotter, J. P. (1990). A Force for Change: How Leadership Differs from Management. New York: Free Press;
Kotter, J. P. (1996). Leading Change. Boston: Harvard Business School Press.
25. Leader vs. Manager Qualities
Manager QualitiesLeader Qualities
SOUL
Visionary
Passionate
Creative
MIND
Rational
Consulting
Persistent
Source: Genevieve Capowski, âAnatomy of a Leader: Where Are the Leaders of Tomorrow?â Management Review, March 1994, 12
Creative
Flexible
Inspiring
Innovative
Courageous
Imaginative
Experimental
Initiates change
Personal power
Persistent
Problem solving
Tough-minded
Analytical
Structured
Deliberate
Authoritative
Stabilizing
Position power
28. TraitsTraits
⢠Traits - early efforts to understand
leadership success focused on
Traits = personal characteristicsTraits = personal characteristics
leadership success focused on
leaderâs personal characteristics
⢠Great man approach - early
research focused on leaders who
had achieved a level of greatness
â Find out what made them great
â Find people with same traits
29. Personal Characteristics of Leaders
Physical Characteristics
Energy
Physical stamina
Social Background
Education
Personality
Self-confidence
Honesty & integrity
Enthusiasm
Desire to lead
Independence
Social Characteristics
Sociability, interpersonal skills
Cooperativeness
Ability to enlist cooperation
Tact, diplomacy
Education
Mobility
Intelligence and Ability
Judgment, decisiveness
Knowledge
Intelligence, cognitive
ability
Work-related Characteristics
Achievement drive
Drive to excel
Conscientiousness in pursuit of goals
Persistence against obstacles, tenacity
Source: Adapted from Bernard M. Bass, Stogdillâs Handbook of Leadership, rev. Ed. (New York: Free Press, 1981), 75-76. This adaptation appeared in R. Albanese and D. D. Van Fleet,
Organizational Behavior: A managerial Viewpoint (Hinsdale, III.: The Dryden Press, 1983).
30. In highly innovative organizations âŚ
â Top management should:
⢠Understand the innovation process.
⢠Be tolerant of criticism and differences of opinion.
⢠Take all possible steps to keep goals clear.
⢠Maintain the pressure to succeed.
⢠Break down barriers to innovation.Break down barriers to innovation.
â Staffing should fulfill five critical innovation
roles:
⢠Idea generators.
⢠Information gatekeepers.
⢠Product champions.
⢠Project managers.
⢠Innovation leaders.
31.
32.
33. Change
Change is the disruption of the
status quo
⢠A break in the continuities that represent
the steady stream of our lives.
Change often makes forChange often makes for
interesting timesâŚ
⢠It may seem positive if youâre
leading the change.
⢠It may seem negative if youâre
on the receiving end of it.
34. The Types of Change
Anticipated Changes
⢠Changes that are planned ahead
of time and occur as intended
according to a plan.
Emergent Changes
⢠Changes that arise
spontaneously from local innovation
⢠Changes that arise
spontaneously from local innovation
and that are not originally
anticipated or intended.
Opportunity-Based Changes
⢠Changes that are not anticipated
ahead of time, but are introduced
during the change process in
response to an unexpected
opportunity, event, or breakdown.
35. Beerâs Model of
Organizational Change
C = D x M x P > R
D = followersâ dissatisfaction
M = model for change
P = process
R = resistance
C = amount of change
36. The Rational Approach To Organization Change
and the Interactional Framework
Leader
⢠Environmental scans
⢠Vision
⢠Goals
⢠Change plan
⢠Systems vs. siloed thinking
⢠Leadership and management
capabilities
Followers Situation
⢠Crisis
⢠Consumer preferences
⢠Market conditions
⢠Societal shifts
⢠Political and legal challenges
⢠Competitive
⢠Organizational structure
⢠Organizational systems
⢠Organization culture
⢠Dissatisfaction
⢠resistance
⢠SARA model
⢠Loss of:
â Power
â Competence
â Identity
â Rewards
â Relationships
⢠Technical/functional
capabilities
38. The Four Levels of Every Organization
Infrastructure
(management systems,
Physical
(processes, tools,
and structures)
Abilitytoinfluenceorchange
Durabilityofthechange
Easiest Short
term
Š1997, Russell Consulting, Inc. Used with permission.
Cultural
(values, beliefs, and norms)
Behavioral
(what groups and individuals do)
(management systems,
measurements, and rewards)
Most
difficult
Long
term
Abilitytoinfluenceorchange
Durabilityofthechange
39. Common Losses with Change
Loss of: Possible Leader Actions
Power Demonstrate empathy, good listening skills, and new
ways to build power.
Competence Coaching, mentoring, training, peer coaching, job
aids, and so forth.aids, and so forth.
Relationships Help employees build new relationships before
change occurs, or soon thereafter.
Rewards Design and implement new reward system to support
change initiative.
Identity Demonstrate empathy; emphasize value of new roles.
M. Beer, Leading Change (Boston: Harvard Business School Press, 1988).
40. What is the nature of
organizational change?
ď Change leader.
â A change agent who takes
leadership responsibility for
changing the existing pattern of
behavior of another person or
changing the existing pattern of
behavior of another person or
social system.
ďChange leadership.
â Forward-looking.
â Proactive.
â Embraces new ideas.
42. â Fear of the unknown
â Disrupted habits
â Loss of confidence
â Loss of control
Reasons for people resisting change
â Loss of control
â Poor timing
â Work overload
â Loss of face
â Lack of purpose
43. The Journey Through Change
Stability
1.
Comfort
and Control
Looking
Back
Looking
Forward
Chaos
3.
Inquiry,
Experimentation,
and Discovery
2.
Fear, Anger,
and Resistance
Leading Change Training, Jeff and Linda Russell, 2003
44. What People Often Feel
1.
Iâm safe
Iâm in control
Iâm satisfied
Iâm doing fine1.
Comfort
and Control
Iâm doing fine
Iâm being recognized
Iâm working hardâŚ..
Hey, everythingâs cool
* Adapted from Leading Change Training, Jeff and Linda Russell, 2003
45. What People Often Feel
Iâm anxious
Iâm not in control
Iâm angry and upset
Iâm worried about âŚ..
2.
Fear, Anger,
Iâm worried about âŚ..
Iâm not appreciated
Iâm frustrated
Hey, everythingâs in chaos
and Resistance
* Adapted from Leading Change Training, Jeff and Linda Russell, 2003
46. What People Often Feel
Iâm challenged
Iâm hopeful
Iâm dizzy from all the âŚ.
Iâm encouraged
3.
Inquiry,
Experimentation,
and Discovery Iâm encouraged
Iâm searching for âŚ..
Iâm excited
Hey, progress is being madeâŚ.
and Discovery
* Adapted from Leading Change Training, Jeff and Linda Russell, 2003
47. What People Often Feel
Iâm feeling better
Iâm relieved
Iâm encouraged
Iâm confident4. Iâm confident
Iâm satisfied
Iâm energized again
Hey, we made it!
4.
Learning,
Acceptance, and
Commitment
* Adapted from Leading Change Training, Jeff and Linda Russell, 2003
48. Reactions To Change
Anger Rejection
Time
Shock Acceptance
Top leaders
Middle managers
Individual contributors
49. Methods for dealing with resistance to change
â Education and communication
â Participation and involvement
â Facilitation and support
â Facilitation and agreement
â Manipulation and co-optation
â Explicit and implicit coercion
50. What is the nature of organizational change?
ď Top-down change.
â Strategic and comprehensive
change that is initiated with
the goals of comprehensive
impact on the organizationimpact on the organization
and its performance
capabilities.
â Driven by the organizationâs
top leadership.
â Success depends on support
of middle-level and lower-
level workers.
51. What is the nature of organizational change?
ďBottom-up change.
â The initiatives for change come from any and all
parts of the organization, not just top
management.
â Crucial for organizational innovation.â Crucial for organizational innovation.
â Made possible by:
⢠Employee empowerment.
⢠Employee involvement.
⢠Employee participation.
52. What is the nature of organizational change?
ď Integrated change leadership.
â Successful and enduring change combines advantages of
top-down and bottom-up approaches.
â Top-down:
⢠Breaks up traditional patterns.
⢠Implements difficult economic adjustments.
â Bottom-up:
⢠Builds capability for sustainable change.
⢠Builds capability for organizational learning.
53. What is the nature of organizational change?
ď Transformational and incremental
change.
â Unplanned change.
⢠Response to unanticipated events.
⢠Good leaders act on opportunities for
reactive change.reactive change.
â Planned change
⢠Aligning the organization with anticipated
future challenges.
⢠Activated by proactive leaders who are
sensitive to performance gaps.
⢠Transformational change ďž major and
comprehensive redirection.
⢠Incremental change ďž adjusting existing
systems and practices.
57. The Change ProcessThe Change Process First work on
changing how people
think about their job
ď¨
EDUCATION
The Five On-Going Elements of a
Change Process
New
structure
Change of
Thought
Change of
BehaviorChange of
Destiny
Reshape the
organization
through people
Change Process
Drive
Cultural
Change
Change of
HabitsChange of
Personality
Sustain and Stabilize
Changes
59. Fiedlerâs Classification of
Situation Favorableness
Leaders needs to know
ďWhether they have a relationship- or task-oriented style
ďShould diagnose the situation and determine the favorableness of
Source: Fred E. Fiedler, âThe Effects of Leadership Training and Experience: A Contingency Model Interpretation,â Administrative Science Quarterly 17 (1972), 455. Reprinted by permission
of Administrative Science Quarterly.
ďShould diagnose the situation and determine the favorableness of
the following three areas
60. Path-Goal Situations &
Preferred Leader Behavior
Source: Adapted from Gary A. Yukl, Leadership in Organizations (Englewood Cliffs, N.J.: Prentice-Hall, 1981), 146-152.
61. Leading Organizational Change
⢠Steps in the Change Process:
â Step 1: Establish a sense of urgency.
â Step 2: Create the guiding coalition.
â Step 3: Develop a vision and a strategy.
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â Step 3: Develop a vision and a strategy.
â Step 4: Communicate the change vision.
â Step 5: Empower broad-based action.
â Step 6: Generate short-term wins.
â Step 7: Consolidate gains and produce more change.
â Step 8: Anchor new approaches in the culture.
62. Leading Change
Transactional Leaders
ď´ Clarify the role and task
requirements ofrequirements of
subordinates
ď´ Initiate structure
ď´ Provide appropriate
rewards
ď´ Display consideration for
subordinates
ď´ Meet the social needs of
subordinates
63. Leading Change
Charismatic Leaders
ď´ The ability to inspire
ď´ Motivate people to
do more than they
would normally dowould normally do
ď´ Tend to be less
predictable than
transactional
leaders
ď´ Create an
atmosphere of
change
ď´ May be obsessed by
visionary ideas
64. Leading Change
⢠Transformational Leader
ď´ Similar to charismatic leaders
ď´ Distinguished by their special ability to bring about innovation
and change by
ď´Recognizing followersâ needs and concerns
ď´Helping them look at old problems in new ways
ď´Encouraging them to question the status quo
65. Sources of Power
ď´ Legitimate Power: power coming from a formal
management position.
ď´ Reward Power: stems from the authority to bestow
rewards on other people.rewards on other people.
ď´ Coercive Power: the authority to punish or recommend
punishment.
ď´ Expert Power: leaderâs special knowledge or skill
regarding the tasks performed by followers.
ď´ Referent Power: personality characteristics that
command subordinatesâ identification, respect, and
admiration so they wish to emulate the leader
66. What are Your TasksWhat are Your TasksâŚâŚ asas a Change Leadera Change Leader??
Stability
Comfort
and Control
Learning,
Acceptance, and
Commitment
Create a
Felt Need
for Change
Stabilize
and Sustain
the Change
4
Looking
Back
Looking
Forward
Chaos
Inquiry,
Experimentation,
and Discovery
Fear, Anger,
and Resistance
Leader Actions
for Change
and Sustain
the Change
Revise and
Finalize the
Change
Plan
Introduce
the Change
3
2
1
From Leading Change Training, Jeff and Linda Russell, 2003
67. Leaderâs Actions
Phase 1: Comfort and Control
Create a Felt Need for Change
From Leading Change Training, Jeff and Linda Russell, 2003
68. The Role of Change Leaders
⢠It is leadershipâs job to define
and articulate a vision for the
organization and the need fororganization and the need for
change.......
âImplementing organizational change requires a compelling reason for change.
Unless people see the need for change, it will just not happen.â
-John Pepper (Former CEO) Proctor and Gamble
69. Characteristics of an Effective
Change Vision
⢠Confronts and addresses a current or future
threat
⢠Describes a vivid picture of a positive end result
⢠Focused on changes and outcomes that the
process owners care about, and can see, feel,
and affect.and affect.
⢠Provides a method for evaluating staff actions
supporting the change
⢠Links closely with the broader organizational
vision
* Adapted from âManaging Changeâ, Jeff and Linda Russell, 1998
70. Leaderâs Actions
Phase 1: Comfort and Control
⢠Acknowledge peopleâs past efforts and
success.
⢠Get peopleâs attention!
⢠Immerse people in information about
the change . . . customer complaints,
â˘
the change . . . customer complaints,
budget data, increasing costs,
competitive pressures.
⢠Let people know it will happen â one
way or another!
⢠Give people time to let the ideas sink in.
⢠Donât sell the solutions . . . sell the
problem!
* From Leading Change Training, Jeff and Linda Russell, 2003
71. Leaderâs Actions
Phase 1: Comfort and Control
⢠Create and communicate a sense of
urgency, and risks of not changing.
⢠Create the fear of not changing, and
sell that the change is necessary,
achievable, and beneficial.
⢠Communicate what will not change,
and always be honest and
⢠Communicate what will not change,
and always be honest and
consistent.
⢠Tell the story as early as possible,
tell the whole story as your know it
to be, and tell it in as personal a way
as possible ď¨ try to ensure
everyone hears and understands the
âsame storyâ.
⢠The degree of âchange readinessâ is
often inversely proportional to the
closeness of the crisis.
72. Leaderâs Actions
Phase 2: Fear, Anger, and Resistance
Introduce the Change
KAI â to break apart or
disassemble
KAI â to break apart or
disassemble
ZEN â to feverishly improve
Must do the Kai first!
73. Leaderâs Actions
Phase 2:Fear, Anger, and Resistance
⢠Communicate to co-create the vision.
⢠Listen carefully to what people are saying.
⢠Acknowledge peopleâs feelings (pain, perceived
losses, anger, excitement, etc.)
⢠Strive to address their perceived losses.
losses, anger, excitement, etc.)
⢠Strive to address their perceived losses.
⢠Tell people what you know â and what you
donât know.
⢠Donât try to talk people out of their feelings.
⢠Discuss ways to solve the problems that people
see with the change.
⢠Encourage discussion, dissent, disagreement,
debate
. . . keep people talking.
From Leading Change Training, Jeff and Linda Russell, 2003
74. Leaderâs Actions
Phase 2:Fear, Anger, and Resistance
⢠Create a coalition of influential upper
level managers and stakeholders to guide
and support the efforts promoted by the
change leader.
⢠Select the right coalition members with
credibility, proven leadership abilities,credibility, proven leadership abilities,
expertise in needed areas, and the power
and prestige necessary to make things
happen ď¨ avoid people who lack in
enthusiasm, integrity, and trust
worthiness.
⢠Trust among the members is critical.
⢠Recognize that large scale change needs to
be led from the top and
supported/accomplished from the
bottom.
75. The Role of Change LeadersThe Role of Change Leaders
The key prerequisite to successfully implementing change is Gaining employeesâ
acceptance and overcoming their resistance and fears to change.
Must address peopleâs fears â not ignore them
76. Leaderâs Actions
Phase 3: Inquiry, Experimentation, and
Discovery
⢠Affirm Why change is necessary and
How it will workâŚ.
⢠Involve influential and resilient people
in creating the solution (strategies
and tactics) to accomplish the vision.and tactics) to accomplish the vision.
⢠Emphasize the Win-Win aspects of
the change to address the threats.
⢠Create and follow a simple, yet
detailed change implementation plan.
ďŽ A change plan gives time for
reflection and re-thinking of the
options.
77. Components of a Change Plan
1. Create a leading change design team.
2. Document the case for change.
3. Develop a preliminary vision for the change.
4. Define the impacts on those affected by the change.
5. Create your preliminary strategy and action plan.5. Create your preliminary strategy and action plan.
6. Identify measures of success.
7. Develop your communication strategy.
8. Develop your training strategy.
* From Leading Change Training, Jeff and Linda Russell, 2003
78. Leaderâs Actions
Phase 4: Learning Acceptance, and Commitment
Leaderâs Actions
Phase 4: Learning Acceptance, and Commitment
Stabilize and Maintain
the Change
* From Leading Change Training, Jeff and Linda Russell, 2003
79. Leaderâs Actions
Phase 4: Learning Acceptance, and Commitment
⢠Acknowledge peopleâs hard work.
⢠Celebrate successes and accomplishments.
⢠Reaffirm the vision.
⢠Bring people together toward the vision.
⢠Acknowledge what people have left behind.
â˘
⢠Acknowledge what people have left behind.
⢠Develop long-term goals and plans.
⢠Provide tools and training to reinforce new behaviors.
⢠Reinforce and reward the new behaviors.
⢠Create systems and structures that reinforce
new behaviors.
⢠Prepare people for the next change.
* From Leading Change Training, Jeff and Linda Russell, 2003
80. Stabilizing and Sustaining the
Change *
⢠Establish staff commitment to the new direction
by reinforcing new behaviors and beliefs.
⢠Invest in the change through new skills training,
new equipment and facilities, and newnew equipment and facilities, and new
performance/reward measures and management
systems that are consistent with the change.
⢠Prepare people for future changes and assure
them that they have the capacity to address and
solve future threats.
* Adapted from âManaging Changeâ, Jeff and Linda Russell, 1998
81. Ten Governing Assumptions about
Organizational Change
1. Change is inevitable; growth is optional.
2. Change is difficult because it moves people out of their comfort zones.
3. People donât resist change as much as they resist being changed.
4. Resistance to change occurs for a reason.
5. People respond to change differently based on the personalities,
histories, personal visions, or perceptions of the surrounding
5. People respond to change differently based on the personalities,
histories, personal visions, or perceptions of the surrounding
environment.
6. You canât change people; only they can make the choice to change.
7. The complexity and size of change matters.
8. You can never communicate too much during a difficult and complex
change.
9. Resilience is important.
10. Leaders donât control change; they guide, shape, and influence it.