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S2 Ep 14|027 Transformation Theater - Why Organizations Perform Change Instead of Making It
Transformation Theater - Why Organizations Perform Change Instead of Making It
Season 2 | Episode 14|027
Host: Kevin Novak | Duration: ~35 minutes
A nonprofit executive launched eleven change initiatives in two years. She hired the consultants, bought the software, trained the staff, established dashboards, and built steering committees. Eleven initiatives. Nothing changed. She had treated every one of them as a tool problem when they were all, fundamentally, people problems.
That pattern has a name: Transformation Theater, where organizations perform elaborate change rituals without…
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