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Business and organizational renewal or align-accelerate-transformation initiatives are important ways for companies, private firms, and institutions to reinvent themselves, but as many discover, these initiatives can fall short of the desired transformation.
Why?
Research on 35 renewal and cascade initiatives suggests that this kind of finger-pointing is beside the point. Employees on all levels and across all functions of a project, enterprise or organization are important to achieving the outcomes of any strategy. And making employees on any level more accepting of change helps to advance the process.
While a commitment to transformation on all levels would be ideal, executing a course of action can still get fairly good results if employees and managers on even one level act to implement it.