Make Change Work for Your Business

It’s been said that the only reliable constant in business is change, and that saying has even greater validity when applied to the area of organizational development. The latest contribution to the ever-evolving body of writing surrounding change management comes from two authors, John McGuire and Gary Rhodes, and is titledTransforming Your Leadership Culture. Both McGuire and Rhodes have decades of corporate experience that they draw on while currently working with the prestigious Center for Creative Leadership.

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ever- always
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The Failure of Organizational Change

Their latest collaboration readily lays out the sobering results from a variety of studies showing that organizations fail between 66 percent and 75 percent of the time when trying to implement a new initiative or transformational program. Such alarming stats make you wonder if the consultancy-driven discipline of organizational development is little more than an elaborate Ponzi scheme. Fortunately, McGuire and Rhodes think organizational development is more than a confidence game. They believe the critical breakpoint between a thoughtful change strategy and its execution occurs within the organization’s existing leadership culture. ...

Ponzi scheme: A Ponzi scheme is a fraudulent investment operation that pays returns to separate investors from their own money or money paid by subsequent investors, rather than from any actual profit earned.


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