Know the Enemies of
Change
You cannot help but creating diverse
both animate and inanimate enemies when you initiate a change.
The more
radical the change, the stronger the enemies.
If you don’t know your enemies and
what weapons they might use against you, how are you going to win a
war against them?
The best way to
know your enemies
is to
play
a
simulation war game, such as
Innoball
or
InnoChess.
Status Quo
If you neither defrost the status quo
nor
nurture creative dissatisfaction, people will not embark on
your change journey.
Leadership
If
your
vision is not inspiring enough, unclear or under-communicated,
your target audience will not buy into it. If you don’t
live your vision,
people will not trust you. If you are neither
energized nor energizing
others, you will not be able to create powerful human currents of
followers moving in a desired direction. If you don’t involve people
in the change planning process, they will treat the plan as an
alien, not their own child to raise.
Change Program
and
Process
If you have neither
change program nor
guiding principles, your
change process will be chaotic and ineffective. If you don’t
celebrate small victories, you will neither provide positive
reinforcement nor emphasize
work-life synergy. If don’t anchor new approaches in the
corporate culture, they’ll be abandoned soon.
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