Rule 4 - Change is good - use it to the benefit of the business and your organization.
One of the issues that I have seen over the past 30 years is that companies and organizations that make up those companies are unwilling to change or reorganize to meet the changing needs of the market or the business. GE was the exception (in my career).
We, as managers and team members, must be constantly looking for ways to improve the business - directly (increasing revenue or decreasing cost) or indirectly (improving efficiency or doing new functions with the same $). That is very difficult to do if it's not built into the culture. The only time that it is done consistently is when the organization is under financial pressure and downsizing is used as a way to cut costs. That should not be the case.
We should be using change and reorganization as a means to improve the business, change a trend, reward our people, send a wake up message to others or move people out who cannot perform. The net is positive - it can be disconcerting to those who don't like change but I the overall effect is positive - especially if it becomes part of the culture (and not while downsizing).
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Change is good but it should be noted that change for the sake of change is not. Perhaps it would be better put that "good change is good". Changing something just because everyone else is doing the same thing can be a disaster.
Great comment and absolutely correct.
Change (especially organizational change) must be done for a reason and it must be thought through.
Thanks Bill.
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