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"Leadership Life Lessons from Life-Changing Reorganizations"

Lead Change Effectively and with Care

In the first 16 years of my career in the corporate world, I experienced eight reorganizations that directly involved my role. For some, I was an individual contributor waiting to hear my fate, and for most, I was in a leadership role designing the future and deciding the fate of others. Eventually, things came full circle, and I was an individual suddenly searching for a new career outside of the one I had known for so long.  

Reorganizations are difficult, necessary and deeply personal for everyone involved.  

Often, when the term reorganization is used, job loss or cost-cutting comes to mind. Certainly, these are possible outcomes but never the true purpose of the effort. The true purpose is to move the company from the path it is on to a path that leadership believes will be more viable and more likely to lead to future success. I have never met a leader contemplating a reorg who did not subscribe to this purpose, yet 80% of reorgs fail to deliver the hoped-for value in the time planned.  

Brand: Right Management; Author: Jeff Strunk, Vice President of Mobility & Change and Outplacement Product Portfolio

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