08 March 2007

Can Your Company Handle Change?

A management expert explains why organizations initiate change initiatives, the best ways to implement them, and who should participate in them

A GMJ Q&A with John Fleming, coauthor of "Manage Your Human Sigma" (Harvard Business Review, July-August 2005)
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It's often said that the only constant in life is change. Business leaders certainly know this. But what does that statement actually mean to executives? How are you supposed to act on it? And how do you know if you're making the right changes in the right way at the right time? Management expert John Fleming, Ph.D., tackles these and other questions in a probing interview. Fleming -- who has analyzed change efforts at dozens of companies -- warns that unless your business is prepared to make a transformational change, you're probably wasting your time.
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