Transformation Psychology

The Competence Crisis in Leadership Why Your Most Capable Leaders May Become Your Greatest Obstacles to Change, What Happens When Professional Identity Is Built on Expertise That Transformation Renders Obsolete, and How to Navigate the Psychology of Leadership Development During Disruption When Excellence Becomes the Enemy of Change One of the most counterintuitive phenomena in organizational transformation is how the leaders who excelled in the old paradigm often become the most significant obstacles to the new one. This isn’t because…

Middle Management’s Impossible Position Why Transformation Often Stalls at the Organizational Middle, How the Structural Position Between Strategy and Operations Creates Irresolvable Tensions, and What Leaders Can Do About It Caught Between Two Worlds Middle managers occupy a unique position during organizational transformation: they’re expected to simultaneously represent senior leadership’s strategic vision to their teams and represent their teams’ operational realities to senior leadership. During stable periods, this dual representation function works reasonably well. During transformation, it becomes structurally impossible…