Better on Demand
A list of articles focused on how to Manage Change as a leader or manager.
There are five reasons organizations get stuck in the mud. Any of these sound familiar to you? AndreyPopov/iStock Tweet In my last column , I talked about why individual employees resist change. But the challenge to bring about change isn't simply on the individual level.
As a recognized discipline, change management has been in existence for over half a century. Yet despite the huge investment that companies have made in tools, training, and thousands of books ( over 83,000 on Amazon), most studies still show a 60-70% failure rate for organizational change projects - a statistic that has stayed constant from the 1970's to the present.
Entrepreneurs get excited about change, but for staff members, it can be downright threatening. Here's how to get them on board. shutterstock images Tweet As an entrepreneur, your challenge is to create, re-create, and move ahead.
Many times in your career as an entrepreneur, you'll need to make a bold change in your small business or startup. You'll enter new markets, overhaul product lines, or step up your customer service game. When you succeed, you'll do so against enormous odds.
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Will your business take actions this week that will help you deliver your long-term vision? No? How about this month? This quarter? We recently worked with a client whose vision seemed to stop at the end of its collective nose. The client had a very "wild west" entrepreneurial sales culture, scrambling to achieve monthly and quarterly sales quotas.
There's no guarantee that your attempts at change will be accepted. However, if you take the time to establish your credibility, you'll raise the chances that your ideas will not only have a fair hearing, but also be implemented. At its essence, credibility represents the faith and trust that others have in your ideas and your intent.
You know that great feeling, when you suddenly have an idea about how to fix something at your company or do something a new way? Brimming with excitement, you walk up to one of your employees and say "I think we should do this differently."
