FEAR AND CHANGE
Fear is big. It's bigger than we could have imagined.
FEAR AND CHANGE
A change for the worse can leave lingering effects for the future
Organisations need both the willingness to change and a healthy process to breed new ideas.
Innovation teams are hubs of bravery, but too often their ideas are killed by requests for lengthy business cases or endless meetings with legal and compliance. Organisations need to be seen to be willing to change for successful transformation, as well as bolstering the great ideas.
Why do you think innovation or transformation projects have succeeded or failed at your organisation?
Those with experience of distressing business change
fear history repeating itself.
There is a correlation between a history of experiencing business change and feeling persistent fear in the present. Similarly, fearful individuals may have been through less successful business change. We can’t say if this relationship is casual, but it does imply a weathering and wearing effect, a persistent worry that life could change again at any moment.
People fear change they perceive they have little control of. A future worth fighting for needs willing leadership as well as the ingenuity of employees to make lasting change happen.
Next, find out about the high cost of fear for employee morale...
