Your organization is perfectly designed to give you the results you are currently getting.

If you are struggling with changing your organizational behavior, then you probably also have many stories about what you’ve tried before, and how those efforts failed.

You might also realize that the informal power structures that govern how you function every day might not match your formal organization chart.

Habits, rituals and routines are hard to change.  Try writing with your non-dominant hand, or recall the many times you’ve tried to change your own eating or exercise habits.

When changing your organization, you are not talking about simply re-writing goals and maxims. To create real change, you need to update how people think, behave, respond to threats and anxiety, and relate to each other.

Organizations are composed of imperfect people, imperfectly working together.  Changing established patterns requires an interdisciplinary approach incorporating psychology, sociology, organizational science, and common sense.