Make the organization change-ready

Companies have never been under greater pressure to change. Technological advances, globalization, consolidation, etc. are all factors that increasingly require organizations to reinvent themselves.

Yet, studies show that large-scale change initiatives are fraught with risk at many levels. Indeed, the desired transformations often require a large number of employees to change their everyday behavior. Simply ordering people to change is not sufficient to achieve that.

Our selected publications point out a key driver that considerably improves the chances of realizing large-scale change programs successfully, namely, the presence of individuals able to lead change from the inside. Three important messages stem from this:

– Some people are naturally wired to act as change leaders, and are able to help those around them challenge their everyday behavior in order to improve their performance.

– Having a pool of change leaders considerably strengthens the change capacity of the organization.

– The mere presence of change leaders is not enough; the company must orient their efforts and provide them with day-to-day support.