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Exploring Change - the speed of understanding

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Richard Merrick
Apr 01, 2015
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Over time. "Change Management" has become a label, like "Quality" and "Innovation". The labels make the subject safe. People design a process, and make it something that can be done to people and organisations. I suggest that is a potentially lethal approach.

We have three reactions to change. the first is denial - the idea that this is an anomaly, and that things will get back to normal. The second is neutralisation - finding a way to cope with it. The third, is transformation.What initiates transformational change is understanding - a deep, meaningful, relationship with what is happening in our individual and business world. 

And what triggers understanding is engagement - curiosity and a motivation to explore what is happening and the confidence - and courage - to face it head on.

There are three triggers - a mindset that embraces change, the confidence to start without knowing quite where it will finish, and the motivation to do it.

In every organisation the most critical path is that…

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