Change Leadership Failures

Running Head : CHANGE LEADERSHIP FAILURES

The Most Common Reasons for Change Leadership Failures and the Influence of Cultural Values on Change Leadership

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Change initiatives often fail without any obvious reason for this because the cause of failure lies in the minds of managers remaining unnoticed and unrecognized by them . Peter Senge (1990 ) calls this reason mental models , or deeply ingrained images of the world that limit our understanding of reality . Most people are inclined to see only the facts that conform to their subjective

view , or their mental models , and ignore things that contradict their subconscious beliefs . Hence , the power of mental models lies in the fact that they affect what we see (Senge , 1990 ,

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As a result , the decisions are made basing on an incomplete , or even distorted , picture of reality , and it is not surprising that such efforts ultimately fail (Bolman Deal , 2008 ,

.91 . Thus , mental models limit both the learning abilities and the decision making process . They have a source of power in their subconscious character : when the leader is unaware of the mental models , they stay unexamined , therefore the flaws cannot be identified and the practices stay unchanged even if they are not effective (Senge , 1990 ,

.176 . In addition , mental models , just like any model , are simplifications , and the world is too complex to be successfully controlled with the help of 9-point programs especially when they are built on limited knowledge (Senge , 1990 br

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