Change Management: Bridging the ‘Knowing-Doing’ Gap
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Let’s be clear. In spite of the considerable energy, time, resources, knowledge and efforts we allocate to them, the vast majority of change projects in our organizations fail pretty miserably. Failure, in this case, means that the targeted performance improvements are not achieved, as the new ways of operating and the new systems and mindsets supposed to enable such transitions are not integrated and adopted to the extent that our organizations can really profit from them in a tangible and sustainable way.
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The development and evolution of any system–person, organization–nation depends on how the system succeeds to bridge the gap between what the system knows and what the system does (with the knowledge). We call this the gap between knowing and doing or the knowing-doing gap. If the system does not do what it knows, it will lose out in competition with other systems, its relative performance in...
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