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Transformation fatigue is a design problem

People are not tired of change. They are tired of change that never finishes and never gets measured.

Mara Okonjo

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6 min read

Transformation fatigue is a design problem

Transformation fatigue is usually described as a people problem. In our experience it is an architecture problem, and it is fixable.

Finish something

Programmes that run indefinitely teach an organisation that change is weather rather than work. Cutting the programme into pieces with a visible end, an owner and a measured result changes the relationship people have with it.

The most effective fatigue treatment we know is a completed change that somebody publicly measured.

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Start a conversation

If this sounded familiar, it usually is.

Most of what we write comes straight out of an engagement. Tell us where your version of it is stuck.

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