Chapter 2. How Organizational Change Affects Us

What’s in This Chapter?

  • The nature of change

  • The forces for change

  • The impact of change on people

  • The role of leadership in the change process

  • The governing assumptions behind the integrative change model for leading change

Recall from the last chapter the sad history of most major change initiatives. The results have been disappointing: wasted resources, low staff morale, marginal results, and missed opportunities. It’s clear that there must be a better way—and there is. Although this “better way” has been with us for a long time, we have difficulty integrating what many of us know about change into our actual leadership strategies and practices. Leading change effectively is simple in concept, but ...

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