Reimagining Change Leadership: Returning to Lewin and Burns
Kurt Lewin and James Burns remain two of the most influential voices in organizational change and leadership. Yet their ideas have often been misinterpreted, diluted, or outright distorted, leaving us with orthodoxies that emphasize control and self-interest instead of participation and morality. If we are to meet the challenges of today’s organizations, it’s time to […]
Reframing “Resistance to Change”
“Resistance to change is normal and expected.” “Actively manage resistance to minimize the impacts.” We’ve heard it for decades. So much so that these notions have been comfortably ingrained in our thought process regarding resistance, indoctrinated deep into our confirmation biases. But what if what we’ve been fed by the commercial purveyors of change management […]