CHAPTER TENTHE DISCIPLINE OF CHANGE MANAGEMENT

“Survival goes not to the strongest or most intelligent of the species, but to the one most adaptable to change.”

—Charles Darwin

Your success as a leader will be largely determined by how efficiently and effectively you respond to the challenges of change in your business. Change is inevitable, unavoidable, unstoppable, and mostly unpredictable. The better you are with dealing with the incredible speed of change in your business and personal life, the greater your contribution will be and the more valuable you will be to your organization.

Three major factors drive change today: information explosion, technology expansion, and determined competition. Let’s take each one of these in order.

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