The Awakening Giant (Routledge Revivals)

1	Research on Organisational Change and Development and Strategic Change: Some Limitations

Change is ubiquitous. Or is it? In the micro-events which surround our particular lives and in the daily trumpetings of the media change has an ever-present illusion of reality. Yet observe other men consciously attempting to move large and small systems in different directions, or attempt it yourself, and one sees what a difficult and complicated human process change is. And there is the problem of perspective. Where we sit not only influences where we stand, but also what we see. No observer of life or form begins with his mind a blank, to be gradually filled by evidence. Time itself sets a frame of reference for what changes are seen and how ...