BU481 Lecture Notes - Lecture 15: Situation Two, List Of Xyzzy Awards By Category
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Identify all required changes in: resources, organization, after having identified all the changes required to support the preferred strategic alternative, segregate behavioral from non-behavioral changes. Identify likely leverage point to implement the behavioral changes: leadership, organization structure, management process. Starting conditions urgency: anticipatory, situation allows time to think it through and plan, reactive, the need for change is becoming increasingly clear, crisis, requires fast, focused, and decisive actions. Starting conditions organization readiness: who is the most affected, are they ready for the changes, target group identification. Isolate a limited number of group targets: critical to the first step of changes. Starting conditions: personal readiness: need to be assessed both from a personal and external perspective, 2 dimensions: sense of commitment, capability. Leadership style: directive: characteristics: autocratic, command, coercive, top-down, assumptions: problem understood, solutions are known, power established to force compliance, pros: can achieve change quickly, cons: difficult to change course once engaged.
