Re: "Why Transformation Efforts Fail"

Hi Glen,

Sounds like you've got an interesting management team up there!  I pulled "Leading Change" off the bookshelf yesterday for a re-read.  Ordered the "HBR on Change" too, so I can keep up with your posts on this ;-)  Could you say a little more about your "brown bags"?  Who attends?  What's the format?  Are they part of a larger "change program" of some sort?

Thanks,
Bill
  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: Alleman, Glen B. 
  To: [email protected] 
  Sent: Thursday, December 19, 2002 2:32 PM
  Subject: [XC] "Why Transformation Efforts Fail"


  Just finished a lunch "brown bag" lunch seminar where "Leading Change: Why Transformation Efforts Fail," John P. Kotter Harvard Business Review on Change. This is a very useful piece describing how change is difficult, how to deal with these difficulties, and how executives need to approach making changes. Once the felt need is identified fro something like XP, the process of making the necessary changes is outlined. In the end simply saying things like "you need to change, and I have the answer" leads to utter failure at the executive level. Read Kotter for some insight.

   

  In the same book is "Building Your Companies Vision," and "Managing Change" those are next months Brown Bags.

   

  Glen B. Alleman

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