Change Management #1 - Is change always agile?
The other week I was invited to Italy to give a keynote speech on „How to get management ready for change.” With a group of 30 entrepreneurs I discussed the key lessons I took away from working with boards and market-leading companies across Europe. Over the next few weeks, I’ll share these ten lessons with you, one by one.
One hotly debated issue among international leaders and experts is this: Is there a difference between agile change management and traditional change management?
Some say change management has always been agile, so there’s no need to learn new tools and approaches. Others say: In an agile world, we need new approaches for many things – and change management is certainly one of them, as change won’t go away and it is still picking up speed.
Well, I tend to agree to the latter. (No surprises there, right?) Over the past few years, we’ve learned quite a few new...