Five Fatal Habits

The biggest challenge organisations face in becoming future fit is legacy cultural baggage. This acts like an immune system – preserving the status quo whilst actively stifling, smothering and strangling innovation, agility, and adaptiveness.

Most attempts to create a future-fit culture fail due to this cultural baggage. The single most important thing to understand is that cultural transformation only succeeds when it’s led, guided and delivered by the people who work in the organisation themselves.

The vast majority of transformational change efforts fail because they’re not delivered by the people in the organisation but by mainstream “Big Con” management consulting firms. The Big Con business model is based on deploying very large numbers of very junior consultants for as long as possible to generate as much revenue as possible.

If these Big Con led interventions actually worked, then you can be sure that the firms involved would be running around with their megaphones telling everyone about the amazing high profile success stories of transformational change they’ve guided and led. However, despite mainstream management consulting having become a gargantuan trillion-dollar global industry, such success stories are conspicuous by their absence. Instead, the Big Con outfits blame their own abject failure to help their clients create future-fit cultures on “employee resistance and lack of management support”.

Download the 22-page report on the cultural baggage preventing organisations from creating future-fit cultures highlights how this is systemically reinforced by mainstream management consulting firms in the form of Five Fatal Habits.