From the course: Implementing Change Effectively
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Evolution vs. revolution
From the course: Implementing Change Effectively
Evolution vs. revolution
- I've been through so much organizational change in my professional career that it was one of the things that I was immediately drawn to when I started my PhD studies. I wanted to know why change happens, how it's handled, who it affects and where organizations implement change. And all of this with a goal of understanding how it can be better managed. I looked at organizational change from a variety of perspectives and in a variety of contexts. And one of the things that emerged is that understanding the type of change can help you manage that change. So all change falls on a spectrum from evolutionary to revolutionary. Evolutionary changes are those small changes that just seem to happen, that often times don't require explicit thought or planning. The slow introduction of more and more healthy options on a fast food menu is a perfect example of this. If you looked at any company that has been around for a hundred…
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