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Change Management Needs to Change

Harvard Business Review

The challenge is to make change management part and parcel of the business plan, and not an add-on that is managed independently. Making it happen effectively, however, needs to be a core competence of managers and not something that they can pass off to others. Everyone agrees that change management is important.

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Google, Don't Choose Micromanagement

Harvard Business Review

For the purpose of this discussion, I want to assume the core competency, the "why" of the business, is known.). So seeking more information is just part and parcel of that message. Focusing on the "how" will get you the "what," but just focusing on the "what" typically falls apart as soon as people change or products ship.