Organization Change : What Your Competitors Don’t Want You To Know, Finally Revealed
- Posted by admin on November 24th, 2008 filed in Business and Management
Change is everywhere, and in the last one hundred years humans have experienced the fastest rate of change ever.
As long as people were around, no one could travel faster than we – or our horses – could run. Then all of a sudden we are zipping around in planes, and our messages ride the airwaves at the speed of sound.
But what many do not realize is that it’s far from letting up, the rate of change is actually increasing. Faxes were adopted faster than telephones. Email was adopted faster than faxes. It took years for CDs to kill the LP, while DVDs torched VHS almost overnight. Things are speeding up; more and more, change is afoot.
Despite all this experience we’ve had with change, most organizations still are not very good at it. In the Sixties and Seventies, only 20% of change initiatives met expectations. Today, that figure is still stuck at 20%.
But today, the 80% failure rate is being felt.
How can an organization survive in an environment of constant, rapid, and increasing change if they fail at 80% of the change they attempt?
The answer is they can’t… and they aren’t.
It’s nature’s way. Species that don’t adapt to change; die out and make room for others that are better suited to the new environment. The system adapts because the individual organism dies out.
That’s what’s happening in business today. Everywhere you look, organizations are merging and purging – or selling out and shutting down. The consequences for not being able to keep up are dire.
Depressing? Looking for an upside? Well… It doesn’t have to be this way.
With the possible exception of the cockroach, humans are the most changeable, most adaptable species the planet has ever produced. We are not wired to step aside and let the next Johnny-come-lately primate forward. Humans by their very nature must try to figure out what the new environment demands and work out some solution to make it happen.
And when it comes to corporate change, some of us have figured it out. For these lucky few, change is more a science than an art. They use proven approaches that give them consistently positive results.
Business Change Management
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Just think what a boost that could give you against the rest of the drones out there – swinging away and getting only one in five.
Our articles will reveal to you the keys to the kingdom; the specific and practical steps that will make you the rarest of all species: the change master.
Never fear! Change masters may be rare, but they are never endangered.
Business Change Management
Find out more: implementing change
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