Best practices sound like a sensible idea...
The problem is, the faster the world moves, the more unpredictable change is, the more disrupted your environment is, the more problematic best practices become.
Basing the way you operate in the past, which is what best practices tell you to do, doesn’t equip you to navigate change.
Backed by 40 years of research, “THAT’S NOT HOW WE DO IT HERE: A Story about How Organizations Rise and Fall - and Can Rise Again,” tackles the eternal tension between management and leadership and the reasons for the rise and fall of organisations.
If you’re faced with the all-too-common response, “That’s not how we do it here,” at work when presenting a new idea, what should you do?
Well, this may sound like a side step, but it depends on who you are, the details of the organisation, its history, and who you’re bumping into, and lots of stuff like that. If there is any generalisation, it is easy to back away for potentially legitimate fear that if you don’t you’re going to get yourself into trouble. But when everyone thinks that way, institutions and organisations don’t adapt, they don’t innovate, they don’t change rapidly enough and it gets us all into trouble.
“That’s Not How We Do It Here!" distils decades of experience and award-winning research on leadership and change revelling:
• How to leverage a startup approach within a larger organisation to be more agile and innovative,
• How ideas can come from anyone on the team no matter what their hierarchy level, and how this can be encouraged,
• Secrets to gleaning “buy-in” from top leadership,
• How organisations mired in turbulent industries can adapt their structure to prevent limiting beliefs and attitudes.
Reference: John Kotter: That's Not How We Do It Here!: A Story about How Organizations Rise and Fall--and Can Rise Again
