Why Transformation Efforts Fail

KotterÆs study points up the fact that todayÆs corporate environment is full of ambiguity and complexity and that most people do not know how to handle either. As with the beleaguered Enron executives, many leaders seem to be clueless about what is going on in their companies or how to handle what they find. They suffer from a lack of the imagination that would allow them to see alternate ways of handling a problem. Helen DeMarco found that her boss had conceived an idea that was sure to fail, but she and her colleagues were afraid to tell him the truth about it. DeMarco felt that deceiving her boss was her only alternative, yet this was not really the case. In the KAL flight 007 incident, one error is compounded on another until a completely preventable tragedy occurs, simply because no one stopped the chain of human errors (Kotter).

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