How Leadership Anxiety Derails Transformation
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Successful change initiatives are often aided by collective organizational anxiety as the need to address a burning platform rallies ...
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“I feel set up,” said the CEO of a professional services firm, breaking the long silence after his presentation. The transformation he had envisioned — and his executive team had championed and worked on for three years — had failed to deliver returns, and the hope that his leadership had once inspired had soured into blame. We witnessed that scene toward the end of a four-year study of the leadership team that strategized and implemented that firmwide transformation. It was the anticlimax of a drama that we have heard many executives recount.
The script of that drama goes like this: The future is uncertain. Trends in the world, the market, or the industry call for radical change....
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