Michael Schwartz

Doubling up as management executive and change manager

On top of their the day-to-day work in their departments, management executives are often faced with challenges associated with ongoing change projects. For this reason, they may have to double up as a change manager and need special expertise for this.

1 Seeing “change” as normality

Technical development is progressing at breakneck speed; just like (digital) networking in the companies as well as between the companies and their environment. For this reason, change is a permanent issue in day-to-day business today. That means the necessity to reflect on one’s own behaviour and change it wherever necessary to grow into new roles is an elementary part of everyday work. And the task of initiating, managing and controlling change processes? This has evolved into a core task for management. Awareness of this is something many management executives...

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