September 2017
Intermediate to advanced
136 pages
3h 37m
English
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6 Adopt and adapt
“No house should ever be on a hill or on anything. It should be of the hill. Belonging to it. Hill and house should live together each the happier for the other. Frank Lloyd Wright”
6.1 The practitioner’s dilemma
Experience tells us that a successful change management programme is based upon the practitioner’s ability to successfully adopt and adapt the principles of change management to the needs of their organization. ‘Adopt and adapt’ has rightfully become a guiding principle in best practice. I’ll make one brief note on the words: adoption is a choice that an organization makes to accept a practice, to adopt it as its own. Adaptation, on the other hand, is the process of adjusting (adapting) the adopted practice to make ...