10 critically important reasons
why change initiatives fail
Leaders offer 'voices from the trenches' to guide improvement projects
By Clinton O. Longenecker and Thomas Litzinger
“Sometimes we are in such a hurry to improve things
we have a tendency to push our efforts forward to
change things too quickly which seems to always come
back and bite us. If we are honest with ourselves, our
improvement efforts frequently fall short because of
this tendency, which is a very real issue in any place
I’ve ever worked. As a leadership team, we are quick to
highlight successful change and improvement efforts,
but we rarely take the time to debrief when a change
effort falls flat or outright fails. ... I can say from personal
experience, there is much to be learned when we take
the time to analyze a change effort that didn’t deliver
the results we had hoped for. ... We need to get better at
controlling the things that drive successful change and
understanding the things that cause failure.”
— A senior vice president of operations for a
Fortune 1000 manufacturing company
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