Most organizational change flounders because the experience of loss is not taken into account. When the threats of loss are so severe as to increase people's sense of helplessness, their ability to master themselves and their environments decreases. To undertake successful organizational change, an executive must anticipate and provide means of working through that loss.
~Harry Levinson, Psychological Man (1976) as quoted by W. Warner Burke in Organization Change - Theory and Practice (2008)
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