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2 Attributes of Great Change Leaders

Organizational Talent Consulting

In an environment of perpetual change, the enemy of great change leadership is good change management. Good change management involves minimizing disruptions, avoiding costly mistakes, and control. In contrast, great change leadership maximizes business speed, efficiency, and innovation.

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The Reinvention of NASA

Harvard Business

The transitional model (from 1993 – 2006): This phase kicked off with the International Space Station project. Unlike the Apollo era, when funds were no barrier in the effort to win the space race, NASA now had to accomplish its missions as efficiently as possible and be more explicit about its added value to society.

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Your Organization Wastes Time. Here’s How to Fix It.

Harvard Business

While the former approach is friendlier from a change management perspective, we usually find that it leads to only incremental change. These factors are often more behavioral — how the management team makes decisions, for example. This is why we find a zero-based approach preferable.

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After a Merger, Don’t Let “Us vs. Them” Thinking Ruin the Company

Harvard Business

Consider this example: When The Interpublic Group (IPG) merged the direct-marketing company Draft with the ad-agency Foote Cone & Belding (FCB) to become one agency in 2006, “it was immediately apparent that the cultures of the two agencies were wildly different,” shared Marty Stock, then head of Coors advertising at FCB.

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