Do Leaders Cause Resistance?

By Jeffrey Ford, on April 11th, 2011

One of the more startling statistics in the business world is that approximately 70% of organizational changes fail to produce the results for which they were undertaken.  In her book The Last Word on Power, Tracy Goss reports that when interviewed, sixty-two percent (62%) of the managers from companies whose change efforts failed listed resistance

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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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