The Death of Change Management: What Comes Next—“Unleashed”
picture credit: gilemixmedia/Adobe Stock

The Death of Change Management: What Comes Next—“Unleashed”

Disrupt the Scroll. Capture the Mind. Rewrite the Story.

Still Managing Change? Or Are You Enabling It Before the Competition Even Sees It Coming?

Let’s Get Real—Just Saying It’s the Future Isn’t Enough.

Here we are, standing at the edge of what comes next: Change Enablement.

And it’s not just new—it’s a threat.

Change Enablement Thrives in Change—But Are You Ready to Let Go?

Change Enablement doesn’t react to Change—it thrives in it.

But you don’t ignite transformation by tightening your grip. You do it by letting go.

The Problem with Best Practices: Are They Really Best?

The corporate world is hooked on best practices, recycling approaches, frameworks, methodologies, and toolsets until they’re empty shells.

But here’s the real question: Are these “best practices” driving real transformation, or just maintaining the status quo?

Seeing “transformation” while playing it safe behind a wall of legacy systems? If your playbook feels safe, is it really transforming anything?

The Uncomfortable Truth: A Threat to Traditional Playbooks

Change Enablement is a threat to traditional playbooks that dictate Change—how you think, how you lead, and how you change.

These playbooks certify Conformity at the cost of Clarity and Courage rather than empowering people to create their own paths.

Change Enablement creates ecosystems where teams and the workforce co-create the path forward.

It isn’t about just controlling and managing people through Change; it’s about empowering them to own it and lead it themselves.

But here’s the bold question: Is Conformity in Change Management killing Change?

Stop Waiting for Playbooks. Start Creating Them.

Change Enablement isn’t about waiting for someone to show you how. It’s about you creating the how as you go along.

Using adaptive approaches and frameworks, methodologies, and toolsets that evolve in real-time, driven by insights from those experiencing the Change firsthand (they have the answers, and the processes help them find and act with and on them).

It’s less about predefined stages and tick-the-box exercises and more about dynamic alignment—ensuring critical business issues (CBIs) and critical success factors (CSFs) are targeted at the variables directly impacting organizational performance.

Change Enablement Isn’t a Framework. It’s a Mindscape.

It requires the courage to question not just processes but the very paradigms they're built on.

It demands that we look at organizations not as machines to optimize but as communities to empower.

What If Change Wasn’t Controlled, But Co-Created?

What if Change wasn’t something done to people but something created with them?

This isn’t about tearing down for the sake of it. It’s about breaking free from systems and processes that stifle courage, creativity, and co-creation.

If you’re defending the old playbooks, maybe it’s time to ask: Who do they really serve?

Change Enablement Flips the Script

Change Enablement isn’t about managing what’s coming next for your organization—it’s about empowering it before the competition sees it.

Stop looking for Best Practices. Start creating Next Practices.

Change Enablement flips the script: What if we empowered people to drive Change instead of coercing them to just accept it?

Why Change Enablement—Why Now?

Change Enablement doesn’t just challenge the status quo—it’s making Change Management obsolete.

But is that really true?

The Hard Truth Behind Change Management Failure

Consider this:

  • McKinsey claims that 70% of change programs fail largely due to employee resistance and lack of management support.
  • Could it be that traditional Change Management is more focused on controlling resistance than enabling commitment?

Gartner’s research indicates that employees in human-centric work models become 3.8 times more likely to exhibit higher performance.

  • Is it because Change Enablement focuses on commitment through cultures of courage, trust, and co-creation?

Change Enablement isn’t just the future—it’s already enhancing organizational outcomes.

The Challenge: Are You Playing It Safe?

If your leadership is still dictating (controlling and managing) Change instead of co-creating it, you’re already behind.

The future won’t wait: Change or Be Changed. Disrupt or Be Disrupted.

Change Enablement isn’t just the future—it’s already outperforming the past.

The Real Question: Is It Time to Rewrite the Narrative?

Here’s the debate:

  • Are traditional Change Management frameworks too rigid to survive in a world of constant disruption?
  • Can Change Enablement truly balance flexibility and structure to drive sustainable Change?

The Invitation: Let’s Continue the Conversation

I want to hear from you:

  • Is Change Enablement a strategic advantage or just another buzzword?
  • For those anchored in legacy models, is it time to rethink “best practices” and embrace Next Practices?
  • How do you balance flexibility and structure in Change Leadership?

Agree? Disagree? Curious? Let’s Discuss.

Spoiler Alert:

Compliance doesn’t drive Change. It buries it. And Certifying Conformity is the Nail in the Coffin.

?? It’s time to unfollow the outdated. ?? Unlearn the limiting. ?? Unlock the future.

Final Punch: Change Enablement Isn’t Just Different. It’s Indispensable.

Change Enablement isn’t just about controlling and managing Change.

It’s about leading it, owning it, and leveraging it for strategic advantage.

It’s about creating the future, not just surviving the present.

And that’s why Change Enablement isn’t just different. It’s indispensable.

What’s Next? Your Move.

You can keep managing Change.

Or you can start enabling it.

Your move.


Susan L.

Founder / CEO @Avestix | AI, Blockchain, Digital Assets & Quantum Computing ??| $1B+ AUM Across Venture, Digital Assets, & Real Estate ?? | Family Office Platform | Speaker ?? | Tech & Wealth Advisor

36 分钟前

Real transformation happens when companies stop managing change and start owning it. Adaptation isn’t optional,it’s survival. Mark Rogers

回复
Kemal M. Rashid, MBA, CCMP, FCCA, CIA, BA

Leadership I People Management I Peak Performance I Transformational Change

5 小时前

Mark Rogers this is super insightful and thought provoking. Thanks for sharing and hope you push on getting it discussed, debated and something matures out of it.

回复

要查看或添加评论,请登录

Mark Rogers的更多文章