Leading Change Answers
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The top 3 reasons why change efforts fail are as follows; (i) Not establishing a great enough sense of urgency: When successful change efforts begin, individuals or group of people look hard at the companies competitive situation and the focus on potential revenue drop or an emerging market that everyone seems to be ignoring. These steps are important but without motivation to carry out these steps, people don’t help and the efforts fail. Some of the reasons why these efforts fail is; Sometimes executives underestimate how hard it can be to drive people out of their comfort zones. Sometimes they grossly overestimate how successful they have already been in increasing urgency. Sometimes they lack patience. (ii) Not Creating a Powerful Enough Guiding Coalition: This is because companies usually underestimate the difficulties of producing change and thus the importance of a powerful guiding coalition. Sometimes companies have no teamwork at the top and therefore undervalue the importance of this type of coalition. They expect the team to be led by a staff executive from human resources, quality, or strategic planning instead of a key line manager.
(iii) Lack Vision: This is because companies do not create a vision to help direct the change effect. They do not develop strategies to achieve that vision.

(2)
The role of a leader in change initiatives include; establishing a sense of urgency, forming a powerful guiding coalition, creating a vision, communication the vision, empowering others to act on the vision, planning for an creating short term wins, consolidating the improvements and producing more change, institutionalizing new approached.
Change is not possible without a leader. This is because change requires creating a new system, which in turn always demands leadership. Change takes place successfully when there is