Thinking through your organizational experiences at school, and at work when you have been a recipient of change, how have you typically responded to these changes? What were the factors that led to those responses?

• To help you think about these questions, consider the following (Note: these are thinking points and do not need to be answered explicitly in your response):
  • What was the change, and how was it introduced?
  • What was the impact on you?
  • What was your initial reaction? Enthusiasm? "Wait and see" attitude? Ambivalence due to conflicting reactions? Cynicism?
  • Did your attitudes change over time? Why or why not?

2. If you or others were resistant to change, how did leadership overcome that resistance or how did they fail to overcome it and what were the consequences?

3. Based on your reading this week from John P. Kotter's Leading Change: Why Transformation Efforts Fail, which of the 8 errors can you relate to your experience? Explain.

ange, how did leadership overcome that resistance or how did they fail to overcome it and what were the consequences?