All the Liars in the Room
I’ve been thinking about the evolution of change management sentiment over the last few decades, and I keep coming back to the same conclusion: the field changes its language more readily than it changes its thinking. We like to tell a neat story about ourselves. We imagine that change management has progressed in some orderly […]
Has Change Management Really Progressed? A Look at the Evidence
“Where is the Progress in Organizational Change?” This is the title of a thought-provoking paper I read recently authored by Elizabeth Goodfellow and Jason Mazanov (2017). It begs an important question: Has our craft evolved to meet the challenges of the modern world, or are we still relying on old models and frameworks that were […]