Managing Organizational Transitions
Bridges digs beneath the question of how organizations adapt to technological change, instead asking why people change or resist change and how transformation feels as it unfolds. For educational leaders, the piece offers a necessary counterbalance to best-practices discourse, focusing instead on the cognitive and emotional dimensions of having one's professional identity fundamentally transformed by disruptive technologies.
Change happens when something starts or stops, or when something that used to happen in one way starts happening in another. It happens at a particular time, or in several stages at different times. Organizational change is structural, economic, technological, or demographic, and it can be planned and managed on a more or less rational model...
Transition, on the other hand, is a three-part psychological process that extends over a long period of time and cannot be planned or managed by the same rational formulae that work with change.