Sunday, November 10, 2013

Get a project leader to implement change

William Lim said:
People are unwilling to make changes, including myself. But some policies are outdated and need modification, the leaders who need to endorse the changes for the better of Singaporean. How can this mindset to be changed? Changing of Government is no use, the question is how to change their mindset?

REPLY
They are scared of failure. They are scared that failure meant loss of job.
We need a system to allow them to try and learn. But, even if you tell them, they will not take the risk, because their mindset is - I don't trust what you say.
So, they will NEVER CHANGE.
The only way is to appoint another person to manage a specific change project. Put this person in charge. Let the person handle the project. If the project fails, the person will disappear from the scene. Anyway, this person was not part of the organization in the first place.
This is the only way to make change.

1 comment:

Xianlong said...

Policies ought to have an expiration date. Once hitting the expired date, there's a review to see if it is still relevant or to make changes.

Having no expired date would just leave the issue in limbo.

It is like having annual checkup on your car to see if anything 'expired'. Not wait until forced to change or accident happen.

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