Drive change or cultivate it?

Abstract

Wonders whether it is better to drive change from the top, pushing it down into the organization, or should managers be cultivating the emergence of change from the bottom up?; Pinpoints the 8 typical problems with top‐down changes as: change is disorderly; vision or delusion?; different views of change; structure dreams; self‐absorption; too many programmes; the unintended; and rescue. Illustrates, with a full‐page table, the synthesis of change models.

Citation

Gould, B. (1998), "Drive change or cultivate it?", The Antidote, Vol. 3 No. 4, pp. 23-25. https://doi.org/10.1108/EUM0000000006619