Change fatigue is the sense of apathy or resignation people feel when facing what they perceive as too much organizational change. Often by the time that change fatigue has set in it’s simply too late to stop or postpone the change initiatives that have begun. The symptoms of change fatigue are experienced at all layers of… Read more
It’s useful to examine how others have approached change and transition. In this post, an Apple change management case study, we’ll examine the change management lessons from Microsoft and Apple. The reason to conduct a case study of these companies is both have undergone significant leadership changes in the last six years and the direction, scope, and culture of… Read more
Most failing change projects do so because of the lack of attention paid to the basic principles of change management. When organizations need to change, leaders cannot simply click their fingers and expect that change to take place. The reasons and benefits of change may be obvious to project sponsors, change leaders, and the board of… Read more
Ian McLeod, until recently the Managing Director of Coles and now Group Commercial Director at Wesfarmers (the parent company of Coles), is a master of change management and a clear change leader. Perhaps this is why he is continually tipped for a high profile return to the UK, on the list for the top job… Read more
In my last article, I discussed the five things that effective change leaders do every day. The onus also rests with change managers, who will be much closer to the coalface, and encounter problems even more vociferously than change leadership further up the line. The need for change managers to be proactive is no less… Read more