Driving Change: What Does It Take?
The challenge of organizing and implementing change is big all by itself, yet it's something engineering leaders are often called on to do. The bigger challenge, even bigger than driving the change in the first place, is making change stick. A change leader can never declare “mission accomplished” until the change actually takes hold, for the long haul.
By Susan de la Vergne Phil is a manager at a biotech company in Colorado that's been acquired by an even larger one in Texas. The acquisition has been a rough ride so far. People in the acquired company don’t like the new management, and the new management hasn’t made any effort to improve that opinion.
