Decline
DECLINE can mean the change worked, didn't work, or worked but we didn't realize it. A LULL sets in and a strong intervention restarts the change.
Decline vs traditional thinking
Two different assumptions about how change should work.
Lean Change
Decline is a natural state of change. A strong intervention can restart the change.
Traditional Change Management
If the change declines, we must invoke our change resistance strategy.
Decline is the last stage in social change and it can mean a few things:
[ml][ul][li indent=0 align=left][b]Success[/b]: The change worked as intended.[/li][li indent=0 align=left][b]Failure[/b]: The change didn’t work at all, or we failed to recognize that some of it succeeded.[/li][li indent=0 align=left][b]Co-Optation[/b]: The organization used its old values to attempt to transform to a new state.[/li][li indent=0 align=left][b]Regression[/b]: The organization fell back on the old way.[/li][/ul][/ml]
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