Knowing Change Preferences Is a Boon for Leaders
Christopher Musselwhite
How people deal with change—both creating it and responding to it—is a function of identifiable individual preferences. Whether people see change as a danger, a challenge, or an opportunity, they have individual preferences that reflect their relationship to structure, rules, and authority.
Gaining knowledge of these preferences can enable leaders to manage groups and organizations more effectively in situations of change and to better understand disagreements with others in such situations. Leaders can leverage this knowledge to create the powerful advantage of collaboration—directing collective energy into creating and producing desired outcomes rather than letting it ...
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