Chapter 2
What Is Organizational Capacity for Change?
It is not the strongest of the species that will survive, nor the most intelligent, but the one most responsive to change.
—Charles Darwin
The only person who likes change is a wet baby.
—Price Pritchett
If the leader’s new mandate is to prepare for change in the future while delivering results in the present, then what specific preparation is required? My central thesis is that the strategic leader’s preparation for the future entails building organizations’ capacity for change, and that is the focus of the remainder of this book. In other words, this book is about helping executives fulfill the strategic leader’s new mandate.1
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