Critical Questions to Ask
When Making Changes
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Questions to keep your strategic planning on track:
(Audio
Link)
- What is to
be changed?
- Why is it to
be changed?
- What will be
different after the change?
- When and how
fast will the change occur?
- Will the change
really work?
- Who is for
the change?
- Who is against
the change?
- What kind of
support will you get?
- How will the
change be announced?
- Will everyone
understand the change?
- Is your timing
for the change adequate?
- Will the change
continue to be perceived as beneficial?
- How will you
monitor the change?
- Will the final
outcome be worth the effort?
- If you were
toreconsider your decision, would it be the same?
"What is
defined as 'impossible' today is impossible only in the context of the
present paradigms." Joel Arthur Barker author of "Discovering
the Future: The Business of Paradigms"
Not included on
the audio recording by Larry Nelson, one of his favorite quotes by Thomas
Paine (1776).
"Perhaps the sentiments contained in the following pages,
are not yet sufficiently fashionable to procure them general favor;
a long habit of not thinking a thing wrong, gives it a superficial appearance
of being right, and raises at first a formidable outcry in defense of
custom. But the tumult soon subsides. Time makes more converts than
reason."
Larry Nelson authored
and delivered the seminar "Mastering Change in the Midst of Chaos"
in the 1990s. He included in his course materials, a few predictions:
LARRY PREDICTED
BY THE YEAR 2000...
"...better than 50% of the companies listed on the New York Stock
Exchange will go through a major organizational overhaul... and up to
30% will not be in business. As many as 80% of their people will not
be working for them at the turn of the century."
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