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All tagged Change Management
The history of change management is replete with theories and models that have been given an existence and permanence that is divorced from reality. While originally grounded in good research these models develop into grossly over-simplified process maps that give a sense of false confidence to managers that they are in control. The models become pigs on the wing.
If there is one area that leaders need to be thinking forward on all the time it is the interaction between people, work and organisation. There is real gravity in the way these three elements co-evolve through time. Donald Schon said it best when he coined the term ‘dynamic conservatism’, which he described as the tendency of organisations to ‘fight to stay the same’. Organisations don’t go on the ‘change journey’ willingly. So, what does it mean for an organisation transform?
Engaging with continuity and gaps, the regular and irregular, and the local and global through imagination has been most important for me in seeing how change flows. The clouds will always obscure our vision. Assuming the clouds away doesn’t work. They always reappear.
