Why Organizations Struggle So Hard to Improve So Little: Overcoming Organizational Immaturity

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A liberating look at the real reasons organization-wide improvement efforts fail and how, when all attempts have failed, you can help your organization to become great. As the authors of this eye-opening new work make clear, to enact real change, organizations need to shake off their immaturity and grow up. Shifting away from the tendency to lay all the blame on bad leadership, Why Organizations Struggle So Hard to Improve So Little: Overcoming Organizational Immaturity offers specific answers for why most organizational improvement efforts fail. Why Organizations Struggle So Hard to Improve So Little explains the difficulties and dangers of organizational immaturity, then provides proven, effective tools and ideas for achieving change within the limitations of an immature organization. With this guide, leaders and other stakeholders will be able to determine the maturity level of an organization, get beyond prevailing myths about how change gets derailed, and identify potential areas for improvement.

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Martin Klubeck is a strategy and planning consultant in the Office of Information Technologies at the University of Notre Dame. Michael Langthorne is a project manager in the Office of Information Technologies at the University of Notre Dame. Donald Padgett is a program manager in the Office of Information Technologies at the University of Notre Dame.