All About Change

(1) According to an essay published online on the team builders.com website, a change agent is an individual recruited or nominated to lead the implementation of a change. A change agent must understand the reason for making the change, and help communicate the details of the change to others within the organization. The change agent's enthusiasm and interpersonal skills have a major impact on success or failure of the change being implemented (2008). Based on this definition, it seems unlikely that any organization would expect every employee to be a change agent. A more realistic expectation would be that ever employer would hope and expect that every employee would be open to change, or a least open the possibility that change is necessary.

(2) There is an odd but old expression: "If It Ain't Broke, Don't Fix It." A question is whether this advice applies to every organization including one experiencing gre

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