Changing an organization has been compared to teaching an elephant to dance. People may resist change because they're happy as things are, they're worried about losing out, or they're scared to leave ...

Management of long-term, complex, large-scale change has a reputation of not delivering the anticipated benefits. A primary reason for this is that leaders generally fail to consider how to approach ...

Change is one of the hardest things to accomplish in an organization, and structural organizational change is one of the most difficult types to achieve successfully. This is especially true in the ...

Earlier in my career, I was hired to lead a turnaround. From day one it was clear the organization needed change. The board ...

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In the 1967 book "Organizations in Action," sociologist James D. Thompson defined three types of interdependence to describe the intensity of interactions and behaviors within an organizational ...

Frequently we frame cultural change in organizations as a necessary return to normalcy, discipline, and structure. A call to arms of what “right” looks like; it frequently pits new ways of thinking ...

This study examines when "incremental" change is likely to trigger "discontinuous" change, using the lens of complex adaptive systems theory. Going beyond the simulations and case studies through ...

Compstat and Organizational Change in the Lowell Police Department by James Willis, Stephen Mastrofski, David Weisburd, and Rosann Greenspan, examines the special challenges and opportunities that ...

How can universities create institutional environments that support the success of women scholars in STEM (science, technology, engineering and mathematics) fields? This challenge has faced U.S.