Why keeping up with change feels harder than ever (opens the source in a new tab)
- Authors from Gartner’s HR practice say leading through change is harder because four things now arrive together: more change stacked on top of other change, faster and continuous change, bigger and interdependent change, and shocks driven from outside by technology and geopolitics.
- They call the result “ungovernable change”, with no clear start or end date to manage.
- Their advice: stop coaching staff through each change one by one, and run change as a routine, everyday business process.
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- forces that make change harder
Why it matters Leaders who run each change as a separate project will wear out their people. The practical shift is a standing capacity to absorb change, with clear priorities and routine adjustment.
Other side Treating change as routine can become an excuse for endless churn. People may still need honest limits, rest and clarity about what will not change.