112) When a company spend millions of dollars trying to educate their employees on a new change initiative; yet, the employees showed less interest in change. “New experiences are needed to erase corrosive beliefs, and some of that can be done efficiently with training.” (Kotter, 1996, Pg. 112) Without proper training, and I want to stress PROPER, because that includes training at great lengths, making sure all employees are well equipped with sufficient knowledge of the new change …show more content…
Such process permits “a shared vision that strengthened cooperative goal setting by drawing the boundary lines of the group around the two organizations involved–namely, the company and its suppliers–thereby reducing the negative feelings that frequently occur in alliances due to perceptions of in-versus out-groups.” Creating separation among groups would introduce resentment and lack of individual performance; furthermore, each group or department will be blaming the each other. Working as a team allows the employees to see their leadership team, leading by example; basically, “words are cheap, but action is not.” (Kotter, 1996, Pg.