Leadership

The statistic is well known by now: roughly 70% of organizational change efforts fail. It appears in textbooks, consulting decks, and boardroom presentations. (Kotter, 2008) Leaders cite it with a kind of resigned familiarity, as if failure is simply the nature of the beast. But here is the question that

With the evolving workplace, the old-school vertical ladder is disappearing. Today’s organization is a web. More often than not, the people needed to achieve your goals will not be a part of your direct chain of command.