Five Fatal Habits

The biggest challenge organisations face in becoming future fit is escaping from legacy cultural baggage that not only holds them back but acts like an immune system that actively protects and preserves the status quo whilst 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 people in the organisation themselves.

That’s why the vast majority of transformational change efforts fail — because they’re designed and delivered by mainstream “Big Con” consulting firms whose primary aim is to keep lots of their junior consultants billable on client fees.

If these large-scale consulting 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”.

Click below to download my 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.