Why Are Personal and Organizational Changes Still Failing?
Have you ever heard the following saying? “Sometimes you have to go slow to go fast.” This phrase speaks volumes about a value that is lacking in our American culture. We live in a ‘I want it now’ culture. A culture that doesn’t want to put the time in, the practice in, to dig deep, to ‘peel the layers of the onion’ if you will, to really uncover, to understand deeply why personal and organizational changes often fail. Decades of studies have consistently shown that 50-70 percent of change initiatives fail. Why is that? Surely, there is plenty of research, a slew of best practices, and a multiple of training courses on managing change. Why then are personal and organizational changes notoriously difficult to carry out? Why are change projects still failing? Self-Discipline My experience leads me to believe that one of the reasons personal and organizational changes fail is because managing change is a discipline, comprised of many skills, that requires ongoing practice. The self-discip
