Most organizations are good at managing resistance to a single change and poor at building the capacity to absorb disruption as a constant. Here’s how to shift from resistance management to organizational resilience as a standing competency.

Most organizations are good at managing resistance to a single change and poor at building the capacity to absorb disruption as a constant. Here’s how to shift from resistance management to organizational resilience as a standing competency.
A division president I spoke with last spring described a moment of clarity that came too late. He had just finished reviewing his organization’s project portfolio and realized that nine of the fourteen active initiatives on his list had been approved individually, in separate steering committee meetings, over a period of eighteen months. Each one […]
In the boardrooms of Fortune 500 companies, a familiar scene plays out weekly: transformation initiatives that began with great fanfare are quietly shelved, their ambitious timelines extended, or their scope dramatically reduced. The statistics are sobering—studies consistently show that 70% of large-scale transformations fail to achieve their stated objectives. Yet the issue isn’t a lack […]