{"id":614,"date":"2015-04-18T08:22:00","date_gmt":"2015-04-18T15:22:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/themercers.ca\/OrderOutOfChaos\/?p=614"},"modified":"2015-04-19T09:17:50","modified_gmt":"2015-04-19T16:17:50","slug":"four-realities-of-change","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/themercers.ca\/OrderOutOfChaos\/four-realities-of-change\/","title":{"rendered":"Four Realities of Change"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Before engaging in any change process, leaders would do well to review the Four Realities of Change as identified by Timothy Clark in his book EPIC Change (page 111):<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li><strong>You don\u2019t have all the facts<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>You can\u2019t remove all the risk<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>You can\u2019t promise zero loss<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>You can\u2019t eliminate the pain<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>What this means is that as a change leader you should not pretend that these realities don&#8217;t exist and when communicated will go much further in producing trust in those who you would have join you in the organizational change.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: right;\">\n<div id=\"themify_builder_content-614\" data-postid=\"614\" class=\"themify_builder_content themify_builder_content-614 themify_builder\">\n    <\/div>\n<!-- \/themify_builder_content -->\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Before engaging in any change process, leaders would do well to review the Four Realities of Change as identified by Timothy Clark in his book EPIC Change (page 111): You don\u2019t have all the facts You can\u2019t remove all the risk You can\u2019t promise zero loss You can\u2019t eliminate the pain What this means is [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-614","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-change-management","category-maxims","has-post-title","has-post-date","has-post-category","has-post-tag","has-post-comment","has-post-author",""],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/themercers.ca\/OrderOutOfChaos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/614","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/themercers.ca\/OrderOutOfChaos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/themercers.ca\/OrderOutOfChaos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/themercers.ca\/OrderOutOfChaos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/themercers.ca\/OrderOutOfChaos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=614"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/themercers.ca\/OrderOutOfChaos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/614\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":624,"href":"https:\/\/themercers.ca\/OrderOutOfChaos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/614\/revisions\/624"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/themercers.ca\/OrderOutOfChaos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=614"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/themercers.ca\/OrderOutOfChaos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=614"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/themercers.ca\/OrderOutOfChaos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=614"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}