Developing better change leaders.
- Resource Type
- Article
- Authors
- Smet, Aaron De; Lavoie, Johanne; Hioe, Elizabeth Schwartz
- Source
- McKinsey Quarterly. 2012, Issue 2, p98-104. 7p. 1 Color Photograph.
- Subject
- *LEADERSHIP
*CHANGE management
*ORGANIZATIONAL change
*LEADERS
*MANAGEMENT
CHANGE agents
- Language
- ISSN
- 0047-5394
The article discusses the importance to business executives of strong leadership skills when implementing significant change, and describes three successful cases of change management. In one, a director of sourcing and logistics was able to promote interpersonal interactions among staff as she changed the firm's sourcing system. A European plant manager achieved his mandate to increase yields by getting out of his office and spending more time talking with employees, in the process learning for the first time about various areas that needed improvement. Also describes is the case of a plant manager in France who needed the help of his workers to transfer operations to another country.