Do Our Brains Hate Change?
Do our brains really hate change. This article reviews the evidence concluding that our brains hate pain not change!
Unfreeze-Change-Refreeze Science or Fiction?
Lewin’ Unfreeze-Change-ReFreeze has become the foundation for popular change management theories is it built on sand rather than science?
Creating A Sense of Urgency Critical for Change?
THE CLAIM From Lewin’s ‘emotional stir up’ to Conner’s ‘orchestrating pain’ there is an axiom in OCM that organisations are ‘canyons of complacency’ (Kotter 2012). THE EVIDENCE But what exactly does a ‘sense of urgency’ mean? Kotter doesn’t seem sure. He states organisations must ‘create a crisis’ (Kotter 2012) but also takes a softer approach […]
Change Curve Doing More Harm Than Good?
THE CLAIM Kulber-Ross (1969) claim that people go through specific stages of denial, anger, bargaining, depression, and, acceptance (DABDA model) after the death of a loved one. THE EVIDENCE To support their claim, Kulber-Ross use a collection of case studies taken from conversations with dying patients. This type of evidence is very low down on […]
