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A final thought from Dr. Kotter
One final thought to put all this material in perspective.
What if good ideas are crushed 1) twenty times per day in one single big company (which, if it has 10,000 employees is a small number of ideas) and 2) once a day for every 1000 people in a country (which also sounds very small)? Do the math, and you find that's over 5,000 good ideas per year shot down in a big company and over 3 million per year in North America. 3 million good ideas a year, the best 1% of which—30,000!—might have a very large effect on a few, or maybe most, of us.
And never underestimate the negative effect of just one major change effort being derailed at your employer. Job losses go up, stock price goes down, quality of products or services slip, ....and what if it's not your employer but an organization that supplies your firm with critical software or has the mission of protecting your family against a terrorist attack.
The numbers add up. The consequences add up. And that, obviously, is not good, nor necessary.
So let's stop it.