John Kotter, noted Harvard Business School Professor draws a clear and helpful delineation between management and leadership in his text: "A Force for Change: How leadership differs from Management".

He argues that applying good management practices produces a degree of predictability and order with the potential for consistent short term results, while applying good leadership practice produces change and has the potential to produce extremely useful change. Managers are often called on in today's business environment to "toggle" between applying good leadership and management practices depending on the situation, in order to accomplish the organizations goals while carrying out their day to day responsibilities.

Kotter argues that successful transformation is 70 to 90 percent leadership and only 10 to 30 percent management.

Most individuals within organizations have a difficult time adapting to
significant change. Kotter argues that getting on board with the
change requires a step by step process and if all steps are followed
an organization increases the likelihood for a successful
transformation. The first and most important step most often
overlooked is the need to create a sense of urgency, over 50% of
all major transformations fail when this step is not taken.

Organization transformations usually fail not because of poor due diligence or a lack of planning they fail because we don't put the same rigor behind the implementation phase. WWC can provide your organization with a customized systemic transformation approach based on proven research work. We can help your management team lead a successful change initiative.