An article by Bob Anderson – Founder, Chairman and Chief Development Officer
Increasingly, the issues that affect business are global in scope. Organisations are nested in a storm-tossed sea of global change where everything affects everything else. Issues of cross-cultural commerce, global economic shifts, resource constraints, ecological impact, and geo-political(in) stability are redefining the context of leadership.
Our old ways of thinking and leading are not capable of encompassing the level of interdependence and complexity we face. They simply are not up to the challenges of global change. In fact, they are barely up to the challenges of organisational change.
A recent study of more than 100 companies engaged in major change efforts demonstrated that 85% don’t yield tangible, much less durable, results. Why?