A Fresh Take on Transformation
Midway through the development of “The Four Building Blocks of Transformation,” by Al Kent, David Lancefield, and Kevin Reilly (page 60), the authors and I were challenged by one of the most senior executives at PwC. Asked to review the draft, he said it seemed stale: “It could have been written this way 75 years ago.” That led to a thorough revision and some soul-searching at strategy+business. We often say we’re looking for “timely originality” in our articles. But topics like transformation have been written about so much, they’re almost stale by definition. To think freshly — and productively — about change in organizations, we need to better understand how that change affects people. The four building blocks can help. The urgency of change is the underlying theme of “Leading a Bionic…