Box 11.1 Identifying Your Beliefs About Change (Ch 11)

I believe that change is difficult, complex but possible. People and organization do change. Based on my experience, it seems that people might agree with the goals an organization is trying to achieve but not with how the organization wants to reach these goals. In other words, employees might agree with the “what” but not the “how”. At my last company, our executive team thought that the only way back to profitability was to lay people off. While most employees agreed that we needed to get back to profitability they did not agree that the only was to lay people off. Many people thought about lowering our expenses, or cutting down on bonuses or business travel. It seems that the executive team wanted to find a short term, easy solution.