Pose four key points that YOU want to comment on or remember from the reading: C
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Pose four key points that YOU want to comment on or remember from the reading:
CHANGE MANAGEMENT To Create Change, Leadership Is More Important Than Authority Greg Satell
You can point out ideas you found insightful, relate concepts to your experiences, disagree with the authors, or offer complimentary or alternative points of view. Please write your points in your own words, and reference page numbers of source material for specific points. Two to six sentences is usually enough detail for each point. Post one take-away impact to your practice, to your future practice, or for the L&D field in general. For this element, consider how the readings might influence how you do your job going forward, or the vision you have for your future self as a professional in this field. Post one question designed to generate discussion among your peers.
Explanation / Answer
Ans. To make change really happen, it doesn’t really need to be managed, but empowered. That’s the difference between authority and leadership.
We tend to overestimate the power of influence.
Fact is we like to think of ourselves as independent and freethinking, the truth is that we are greatly affected by the views of those around us.
Control is an illusion and always has been an illusion. It is an Hobbesian paradox that we cannot enforce change unless change has already occurred. Higher status or persuasive presentation is of limited use.
And because of that change is always requires leadership rather than authority. Respectable people always prefer incumbency to disruption. Only misfits are threatened by the status quo.
So if you want to create a real change, it is not power and influence that you need, but those who seek to overthrow them.