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Leading change in your organization ... may require you to think differently.

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From: CHIPS
Date: 20040322
Author:Frew, Barry

There is certainly no shortage of books, articles and consultants professing how to manage change, how to create and manage innovation, and how to lead transformation. The discussion on change is heard everywhere, even in the Department of the Navy.

The topic of change is certainly not new, Niccolo Machiavelli wrote the following in "The Prince" in 1514:

"We must bear in mind, then, that there is nothing more difficult and dangerous, or more doubtful of success, than an attempt to introduce a new order of things in any state. For the innovator has for enemies all those ...

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