Change: What are Your Organizational Values?

This post originally appeared at petechristianbooks.com.

Companies know they need to change.

This may be because things are not working well or competition is nipping at their heels. They need to take the next step forward and do things a bit or a lot more differently than they are today. At the same time they must balance change with a key question;

“What are Your Organizational Values”?

Most of us tend to be reluctant to change. We have become comfortable in doing what got us to where they are. We aren’t willing to make the changes necessary to improve. But the world is moving on and we must change to keep up with:

• Customer and consumer wants and demands
• Antiquated equipment and systems
• New technologies
• New competition

My consulting work deals with changing something with my client.

All realized that they needed to make improvements of some kind. Yet, they were very reluctant to make the changes necessary to get the benefits they needed.

Here are two examples: