Leading Sustainable Change

Change within an organization is not sustainable without funding and executive sponsorship. Kodak failed to foster and action the great ideas that came from within. Within an organization, it is the organizational leaders that make the rules of the game that everyone else must follow. Importantly, leaders set the environment and the context that teams must operate within. This is akin to the farming analogy. To be a successful farmer, you must create an environment for your crops to grow. Organization leaders must create the right conditions to make innovative transformation flourish and become the norm. In a talk, we recently heard Simon Sinek, a British-American author and inspirational speaker, say this – There is one fact that is not disputable – your customers, stakeholders, and employees are all humans. You cannot lead a company. You can lead people.

It is often unclear that leaders must take risks to change the current way of working...