Making change last: how to get beyond change fatigue.(midcourse adjustments)

From: Ivey Business Journal Online | Date: January 1, 2006| Author: Beaudan, Eric | Copyright information

Any change initiative, whether one with a specific focus or comprehensive organizational change, will reach a point when it stalls--a leader's will starts to sag and the minions, employees, start to tune out. Mastering how to make mid-course adjustments will give new life and momentum to these change initiatives. This author describes how managers can make those key midcourse adjustments.

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