Transforming Your Organization by Overcoming the 75% Failure Rate

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Dr. David White discusses the reasons behind the high failure rate of organizational transformations and the hidden dynamics that impede change efforts.

Send a text Ever wonder why 75% of major organizational transformations fail? Dr. David White, cognitive anthropologist and transformation expert, reveals the hidden dynamics blocking your company's change efforts. Most leaders approach transformation by focusing on people: hiring new talent, reorganizing departments, or implementing top-down mandates. Yet the real barriers to change lie in what Dr. White calls "dominant logics" - the deeply embedded ways of thinking that have driven your or...

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Host: Patrick Antrim

Guest: Dr. David White

Topics covered

• organizational transformation
• leadership
• cognitive anthropology
• change management
• dominant logics

Keywords

• organizational change
• transformation failure
• leadership strategies
• cognitive barriers
• dominant logics

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