Too often leaders are unsure of just how to unfreeze an organization and create change ready followers. Many leaders start by casting a grand vision of what the new organization looks like. However, followers, still frozen in their ways, do not receive this new vision because they have yet to see why change is necessary. [...]
Kurt Lewin (1951), organizational theorist of “three phases” fame, also developed the concept of force fields in change. Lewin basically asserts that there are forces that drive change or progress toward a goal (helping forces) and forces that drive resistance to change (hindering forces). The difference in resistance to change vs. readiness to change lies [...]
In the 1950s Kurt Lewin created a new discipline of management: change management. Managers and leaders had always been tasked with instigating and facilitating transitions, but Lewin’s work represented the first well-researched theoretical model describing the change process. Lewin believed organizational change happened in three stages: unfreezing, change and freezing.
The unfreezing stage involved overcoming inertia [...]
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