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Change Management: Seven Unchangeable Rules of Change
By harveyrobbins | August 30, 2007
Mark them well. In 40,000 years, they have not changed one iota. When designing any change initiative, it is important to keep these rules in mind
1. People do what they perceive is in their best interest, thinking as rationally as circumstances allow them to think. We call this the law of PUSH.
2. People are not inherently anti-change. Most will, in fact, embrace initiatives provided the change has positive meaning for them. This is the law of PULL.
3. People thrive under creative challenge, but wilt under negative stress.
4. People are different. No single “elegant solution” will address the entire breadth of these differences.
5. People believe what they see. Actions do speak louder than words, and a history of previous deception octuples present suspicion.
6. The way to make effective long-term change is to first visualize what you want to accomplish, and then inhabit this vision until it comes true.
7. Change is an act of imagination. Until the imagination is engaged, no important change can occur.
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