{"id":473,"date":"2015-09-06T10:37:41","date_gmt":"2015-09-06T09:37:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.simplexity.co.uk\/?p=473"},"modified":"2015-09-14T10:42:55","modified_gmt":"2015-09-14T09:42:55","slug":"change-management-is-an-oxymoron","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.simplexity.co.uk\/index.php\/2015\/09\/06\/change-management-is-an-oxymoron\/","title":{"rendered":"Change management is an oxymoron"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/pulse\/change-management-oxymoron-eric-lynn\" target=\"_blank\">An excellent post from Eric Lynn on LinkedIn this morning<\/a><br \/>\n<!--more--><\/p>\n<h3>Change Management is an Oxymoron<\/h3>\n<blockquote><p>Change is ubiquitous. It is, and always has been, simply an element of our dynamic world.<\/p>\n<p>In organisations, change may happen as the consequence of external events or a new desired status may be defined. However, the &#8220;change&#8221; cannot be managed.<\/p>\n<p>We can define and manage elements of the technical process involved in achieving the desired status.<br \/>\nWe cannot &#8220;manage&#8221; the human side of the process.<br \/>\nWe humans are unpredictable and in groups, the dynamic and chemistry of our interaction is even more so. It&#8217;s a fallacy to believe this can be &#8220;managed&#8221;.<br \/>\nHuman beings need to feel invited, encouraged and inspired to actively play a role in driving the organisation to achieve the new desired status.<br \/>\nThey need a purpose, or at the very least, a good reason.<\/p>\n<p>Successful change doesn&#8217;t focus on &#8220;management&#8221;; neither does it focus on the change.<br \/>\nIt focuses on the Business Question.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An excellent post from Eric Lynn on LinkedIn this morning<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"link","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[21],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-473","post","type-post","status-publish","format-link","hentry","category-thoughts","post_format-post-format-link"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.simplexity.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/473","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.simplexity.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.simplexity.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.simplexity.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.simplexity.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=473"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.simplexity.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/473\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":475,"href":"https:\/\/www.simplexity.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/473\/revisions\/475"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.simplexity.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=473"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.simplexity.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=473"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.simplexity.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=473"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}