Communicating Change Over Months
The launch reaches almost nobody. What carries a change is a cadence of small, unremarkable references sustained past the point where the leader has become bored…
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Who Must Be Persuaded First
A small number of people function as evidence for everybody else. Identifying them is a matter of who is watched rather than who holds a title,…
Read →The Early Win and Its Trap
An early result buys the credibility to attempt the difficult thing. It becomes a trap when the pursuit of demonstrable progress starts selecting which problems the…
Read →Sequencing
The same set of changes succeeds or fails depending on the order. Sequence determines who has to move before the evidence arrives, and that is the…
Read →Changing What You Should Have Left Alone
Some inefficiencies are load-bearing. A practice with no visible purpose has usually survived because it was solving something, and the cost of removing it appears months…
Read →The Announcement Fallacy
Communicating a change is not making one. The announcement is the cheapest part and it feels like the hardest, which is why leaders reliably mistake it…
Read →Change Fatigue
The fifth initiative fails on arrival because of what happened to the first four. People are not tired of change; they have learned that waiting is…
Read →Resistance Is Usually Information
Most of what gets labelled resistance is an accurate objection from somebody closer to the work. The label is attractive because it converts a substantive problem…
Read →The Month-Four Collapse
Every change programme has a point where the initial energy is spent and the results have not arrived. It is predictable, it is survivable, and almost…
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