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Change Management Organization Development: Understanding the Differences and Similarities for Successful Organizational Transformation

Mike Cardus

Popular change management frameworks include the ADKAR model by Prosci and the Lewin Change Model. On the other hand, organization development is a long-term and systemic approach to improving an organization’s effectiveness and achieving its goals.

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What If You Changed and No One Noticed?

Jesse Lyn Stoner Blog

However, they depended on him for almost all decisions, and as a result he worked long hours and on weekends. Or as Kurt Lewin described in his Force Field Theory , the status quo is maintained by equally opposing forces. If you’ve acted a certain way for a long time, people might not trust that you’ll continue in this new way.

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Psychoanalyzing the World’s Problems Won’t Help Us Solve Them

Harvard Business Review

” As someone whose work has long been informed by these ideas, it was astounding to see them erupt into the mainstream. Freud had a term for such moments, when troubling ideas and emotions can no longer be swept under the carpet. It was disconcerting, too. He called it the “return of the repressed.”

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