Change Management In Practice: Why Does Change Fail?

?Resistance to change may be active or passive, overt or covert, individual or organised, aggressive or timid??? and on occasions totally justified.?
Sadly most significant change fails to meet the expectations and targets of the proposers. The failure is given the catchall name ?resistance?, yet resistance can be principled and creative as well as from vested interest. Top management is frequently unreasonable in its expectations and time scale, forgetting the process it went through when it decided to make the change.
An effective change manager will prepare an organisation for change in the early stages of project definition and stakeholder review, by taking managers through a similar sales process and responding to their apparent resistance: the ?creative View the rest of this article