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Dealing with failure
Change management success tips
Many times in this blog we talked about success and pitfalls of change management.
Changing is not easy and, despite approaching it in a professional way, You cannot have no assurance that it goes a planned.
Figures can be quite difficult to normalize, but failure of change management processes is well above the 50% of cases.
This means that when starting a CM process, chances are that You will fail.
But, by approaching it in a professional way You can mitigate the risk and try to bring your process in the succeeding list.
Main failure areas fall in communication, inadequate sponsorship, too strict times, wrong pace, too tight path.
Communicating is vital, since people that do not receive correct and adequate communications tend to be scared by change.
Inadequate sponsorship brings to a sense of common disillusionment in the organization. Leaders have to be examples of change.
Setting the right pace and giving the right times help in increasing success rate: to fast pace or too strict time to achieve change bring to opposite results.
Tight path: try to make the path rigid enough to manage change, but enough flexible to let it adaptable.
Errors and immortality
If all else fails, immortality can always be assured by spectacular error.
John Kenneth Galbraith
Success
Every successful person has had failures but repeated failure is no guarantee of eventual success.
Anonymous
Try
It is common sense to take a method and try it. If it fails, admit it frankly and try another. But above all, try something.
Franklin D. Roosevelt
Failure and bad examples
Nothing is ever a complete failure; it can always serve as a bad example.
Anonymous
Complexity and failure
Complexity increases the possibility of failure.
Anonymous
Immortality through errors
If all else fails, immortality can always be assured by spectacular error.
Anonymous
Bye bye Google wave
Many sources reported the end announced death of Google Wave: among them Dan Nosowitz at Fast company (http://www.fastcompany.com/1677794/google-wave-poorly-understood-and-underused-is-officially-dead), Ryan Paul at Ars Technica (http://arstechnica.com/web/news/2010/08/wave-cancellation-google-gives-up-on-next-gen-messaging.ars), Matthew Ingram at GigaOM (http://gigaom.com/2010/08/04/google-pulls-the-plug-on-google-wave).
Well, is the end of Google in social networking? I don’t think so, but is a big stop for Google on this area.
Of course the Big G is telling that can reuse part of the work done and that is part of company culture to learn from failures.
But a failure like this is difficult to understand, because ruins in part the quite perfect track record held by Google.
It is difficult to explain why those who created Google mail, Google Docs, Google earth and so on where not able to create something usable and appealing.
When I first tried Google wave I really had difficulties to understand what was the real use and potential: this is uncommon in Google applications which are often brilliant examples of “do something and do it well”.
I think the problem could have been in trying to put everything in one place, creating some confusion.
I hope that Google reenters in social networking market with something more attractive and understandable, because can be a good player against Facebook predominance.
This post as a comment at http://www.fastcompany.com/1677794/google-wave-poorly-understood-and-underused-is-officially-dead, at http://arstechnica.com/web/news/2010/08/wave-cancellation-google-gives-up-on-next-gen-messaging.ars?comments=1&p=20685642#comment-20685642 and at http://gigaom.com/2010/08/04/google-pulls-the-plug-on-google-wave/?go_commented=1



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