Change Management: How Leaders Can Tip the Scales

In a dynamic business environment, leaders often need to implement new strategic initiatives – from new business models to new technologies or workflows. But change is never easy. The success of new initiatives depends on whether leaders win the support of actors within the organisation.

In other words, it is a matter of influence. In this podcast with Vibha Gaba, the Berghmans Lhoist Chaired Professor of Entrepreneurial Leadership at INSEAD, discusses the forces at play when leaders try to drive change. To build support for their strategic initiatives, leaders must understand how support and resistance spread within the organisation's networks.