Change: When “New and Improved” Becomes “Not Again”
Lately, I’ve been thinking about what it’s like to successfully lead a change initiative.
Lately, I’ve been thinking about what it’s like to successfully lead a change initiative.
Keeping employees in the dark doesn’t protect your company—it undermines it.
A fascinating study from MIT found that companies with high information transparency saw a 38% increase in employee engagement compared to those with restrictive policies. Yet in countless boardrooms, the mantra “Just tell them what they need to know” lives on like a corporate zombie—mindless, but surprisingly hard to kill.
“If you have to force change, you’ve already failed.”
This became painfully clear when I learned why the majority of organizational transformations collapse…
When is the right time to change?
We all wonder about finding the right time to change. We lie awake some nights and ponder. Sometimes the universe seems too big, and our place in it too uncertain.
I can tell you that because I’ve coached hundreds of people who felt the same way. Each one of them had something they wanted to improve or a circumstance they wanted to change.
For some, it was a job that was no longer fulfilling. For others, it was a personal goal they wanted to reach. For many more, it was a hazy vision of a better future. But in every case, something was holding them back.
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