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Business Must Evolve & Change: Leading Purposeful Change
Business must evolve and change. Stagnant leaders and businesses may enjoy success for a time, but continued success relies on changing and developing.
Whosoever desires constant success must change his conduct with the times. Niccolò Machiavelli
Although expressed five centuries ago, the Italian philosopher’s words are deep-rooted, and certainly ring true today. In this briefing we’ll explore how you can create buy-in from your employees through demonstrating purposeful change.
Change isn’t easy
Change doesn’t come easy, though, and people are often resistant to it. Forcing change upon employees doesn’t work in the long-run because they haven’t bought into the new ideas.
Rather than taking the initiative and running with the innovation, your disgruntled workforce will return to the status quo at the earliest opportunity.
Anticipate hurdles
Often, as the change leader, you can feel powerless when trying to evolve your business.
Anticipating the presence of hurdles is vital. As Manns and Rising discuss in a Graziadio Business Review study, “…leading change is not a science. Rather, it is a gradual process of discovery that prompts the leaders to react to problems, setbacks, and small successes along the way.”
Creating purposeful change
For your employees to rise to the challenges generated by change, the upheaval must demonstrate purpose and value…
