Posts Tagged ‘change’
Portable Guide to Leading Change
[The following is an excerpt from our latest ebook published through LeaderLab Papers entitled The Portable Guide to Change. If you like the blurb, download the ebook for free. If you don't, download it anyway and then take satisfaction in dragging it to your recycle bin.] Most people view organizational change the same way they [...]
Book Review: Sacred Cows Make the Best Burgers
I am fascinated by change. Well, not really. Like most humans I am quite threaten by change. However, as an organizational scholar, I am fascinated by how some organizations managed to successfully lead their people through change and others fail miserably. For this reason, I was excited to read and review the updated version of [...]
Brief History of Change: Kotter
There is perhaps no change model more cited than John Kotter’s eight-stage change process. Kotter’s work has been repacked and resold by countless “change consultants.” Considering what is said about imitation, the Harvard Business School professor must be the most flattered guru in management. Kotter first presented this model in his 1995 book Leading Change. [...]
Brief History of Change: ADKAR
Change is a gemstone that must be view from multiple angles. The ADKAR model provides another perspective of the change process. Rather than describe what is happening, or prescribe what actions must be taken, the ADKAR model predicts that organization change only happens individuals change. Developed by Jeff Hiatt, the ADKAR model focus on the [...]
Brief History of Change: Argyris
Many times change requires more than the conscious decision of organizational members. Companies, like people, typically need help changing. They need an intervention. Behavioral scholar Chris Argyris studied this need for intervention, eventually publishing his findings in the late 1960s as Intervention Theory. Argyris first defined intervention. To intervene is to enter into ongoing system [...]
