Management of long-term, complex, large-scale change has a reputation of not delivering the anticipated benefits. A primary reason for this is that leaders generally fail to consider how to approach ...

Changing an organization has been compared to teaching an elephant to dance. People may resist change because they're happy as things are, they're worried about losing out, or they're scared to leave ...

Expertise from Forbes Councils members, operated under license. Opinions expressed are those of the author. Leaders can drive their organizations toward success by improving their leadership skills.

In the 1967 book "Organizations in Action," sociologist James D. Thompson defined three types of interdependence to describe the intensity of interactions and behaviors within an organizational ...

This article investigates how executive succession influences the comprehensiveness of structural changes pursued by public organizations. Executive successions are important events for organizations ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I write about leadership and performance management. Most organizational change efforts take longer and cost more money than ...

There has been a lot published on how leaders can do the hard work of building organizational culture for the better. And this is hardly a surprise: After all, culture shapes our experience of work ...

This course focuses on change at an individual, team and organizational level. We examine how training programs help individuals improve their skills, how managers can use scientific principles to ...

“Seventy percent of corporate transformation efforts are doomed to fail.” International change leader and Harvard Business School professor Dr. John Kotter made this dire assertion more than 25 years ...

This study examines when "incremental" change is likely to trigger "discontinuous" change, using the lens of complex adaptive systems theory. Going beyond the simulations and case studies through ...

Opinions expressed by Entrepreneur contributors are their own. From a logistical perspective, it can be surprising to find that many small businesses and startups need a sound organizational structure ...

How can universities create institutional environments that support the success of women scholars in STEM (science, technology, engineering and mathematics) fields? This challenge has faced U.S.