Change Strategy
Changing Minds in Organizations
In the practice of organizational change, we are trying to get people to change their minds about how they are currently acting and adopt a new behavior. Well-known Harvard Professor Howard Gardner, in his book Changing Minds, offers seven “Rs” for getting people to change their minds. Reason. It has to be rational and make…
Read MoreGuidelines for Strengthening Your Change Plan
Frequently, the intention to change and organizational inertia clash so that nothing ends up actually changing. Smart people spend a lot of time coming up with the change, but comparatively little time on the change plan, which so often involves only a launch email and an announcement that training is available. But the study of…
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