Tag: change management
Resistance isn’t a leadership failure, it’s feedback, but if you don’t recognize it early or respond well, it becomes a drag on momentum. Especially in growing businesses, where old systems are breaking down and new ones aren’t fully formed yet, resistance is often misread as disloyalty or laziness. In reality, it’s communication. When it comes…
We all know that feeling, don’t we? The energy of growth, the expanding horizons. It’s exhilarating! The organizational change brings about its own special kind of buzz and excitement. However, as small to mid-sized businesses (SMBs) embark on this exciting journey, it often brings a unique set of challenges. The very things that got you…
Organizational change efforts fail at alarming rates, not because leaders lack good ideas, but because leaders scatter the energy of their teams across too many competing priorities. Research reveals that successful transformation requires leaders to understand the cognitive science of attention, address the psychological roots of resistance through compelling narrative, and deploy proven frameworks that…