Leadership of Change: Do Steps Trump Style?

By Jeffrey Ford, on May 9th, 2011

When it comes to the leadership of change, which is more important, leadership style or following the “right” steps for implementation?

For the past several months, I have been conducting research into the leadership of change.  My interest is in finding out what differentiates effective leading of change from ineffective.  Although my research is far from

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Stop Blaming Resistance and Start Using It

By Jeffrey Ford, on June 25th, 2009

When changes fail, resistance frequently gets the blame.  Rather than blame resistance, however, managers could learn to use it to make changes more successful.

Most organization changes fail to deliver their intended results.  When asked why, managers and executives overwhelming blame resistance for the failures.  In one study, 62% of the managers asked replied that resistance

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