Change Management: Of Babies And Bathwater

The age of the evolution of organizational thinking – sometimes called New Age Management theory – is in part due to the impact of the baby boom generation. Previous generations flourished in the mass-production economy that has increased steadily during the 1920s, 1960s. It is no coincidence that Oedipus the next generation has done everything it could to trash the success of the generation that precedes it. Organizations in the years 1990 and 2000 is the month of March and try new initiatives as a teenager before a mirror, not sure of much, just make sure he does not want to be like her mum and dad. New Age should be better after all that’s new.

But you can not discuss the evolution of our time, but to cope with huge blip demographic and psycho-graphics of our time, and why they (we) can not help but try every new thing that comes into the picture – and are unable to do many of them stick. Some of the factors behind the DCP: Globalization: If the older generation has produced and sold to a single U.S. market, the baby boomers, manufacture and sell to (and cons of competition) around the world. Technology: The baby boomers are much more intimate data processing techniques and are therefore exposed to greater decentralization and individualization.

Can you say Blackberry? Can not be caught dead without your new iPhone? Speed: The baby boomers are anxious because technology has given them that luxury. Previously, the planned changes, such as landing on the moon, has taken years, this generation does not think you can wait that long. If an idea does not hold and give rapid results, they move to another idea. Some leaders have been specially selected because they seem to have a ready finger on the button above ICHY Change. Education: Business schools taught only one approach to business in the first half of the century, today there are zero “conventional wisdom”, even in college the most intolerant. Years ago, there was no theory of “management” in bookstores, at present an avalanche of offers.

I also recently noticed a “new age management” in the local bookstore. Experience: “People today travel more, read more, engage in training, change jobs more often, the face of increasing diversity, work in different functional lines, and socialize with people of other countries, cultures and industries. Diversity, functionality, and “dress Friday” (currently under revision in many companies) has all its roots in the courage of rebellious 60s who raged against the line, square, button-down collar and gray flannel suits.

“The leader as’ servant idea is the I Ching and Che Guevara at Iwo Jima and Dale Carnegie. In truth, however, the conventional wisdom of the industrial age are no less wise in a period of change. Organizations machines are remarkably similar, regardless of how we “humanize” them. Bureaucracies remain effective way to organize complex systems. In-the-box is still where most of us live and think, and he is happy. A generation would be wiser to take the pain threw the bathwater of the previous generation, conduct routine checks baby.

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