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Assessing your organization's change readiness
From the course: Management Tips
Assessing your organization's change readiness
Let me ask you a question. Do organizations change too little or too much? You might be surprised to learn the answer is too much. We've all been seduced by the popular notion that change is the only constant. We have to change everything now or risk becoming obsolete. As a result, organizations take on too many projects. This means that many changed projects fail. Now by failure I mean that the project was way over budget, took too long, and delivered far too little of the promised benefits. The research on change in organizations is very clear. We take on too many projects for predictable reasons. Two of the biggest are trying to keep up with the competition and adopting best practices. It goes like this. A leadership team finds out about a new practice or some new type of resource being used by the competition or some practice that they hear is becoming a standard. And they hear it's working really well. If we wish to remain relevant, we should do that too, right? No, that's not…
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Becoming a change agent2m 59s
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Finding targets for innovation2m 45s
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Assessing your organization's change readiness2m 50s
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Embracing failure2m 33s
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Developing your creativity3m 6s
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Breaking through with brainstorming3m 16s
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Embracing the devil's advocate2m 50s
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Managing creative talent3m 2s
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Fighting bureaucracy3m 6s
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Not all best practices are best2m 57s
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Diversity’s real power2m 6s
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Initiating change conversations2m 57s
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Creating needed debate3m 2s
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Knowing when to engage positive conflict2m 42s
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Myth of creative genius2m 44s
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Changing routines to build new thought2m 41s
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Making risk feel like learning2m 47s
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The difference between creativity and innovation3m 10s
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People don't hate change2m 47s
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Advocating for the unpopular2m 20s
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The upside of limited resources2m 54s
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Understanding change capacity2m 24s
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Picking a successful fight at work2m 19s
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Start, stop, change2m 44s
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