The Meeting That Changed Everything Six months into a major digital transformation, a manufacturing company was quietly failing. Adoption rates stalled at 23%. Performance metrics declined. The best managers were updating their resumes. In meetings, everyone nodded and said the right things. In reality, nobody was using the new system. Then the vice president of operations did something unusual. Instead of presenting another optimistic status update, he stood up in front of 200 leaders and said, “I want to tell…

Why Everything You Know About Leading Change and Transformation Might Be Wrong You’ve done everything right. You crafted a compelling vision for the change or transformation effort. You built a detailed project plan with clear milestones. You communicated consistently and transparently. You managed stakeholder expectations and addressed some early resistance in your leadership team. Yet six months in, adoption is low, morale is lower, and your best people are updating their resumes. The problem isn’t your change and transformation management…