Change Management vs. Change Leadership — What's the Difference?

there is a difference that is very fundamental and it's very big between what is known today as change management and what we have been calling for some time um change leadership the world basically uses change management which is um a set of processes and a set of tools and a set of mechanisms that are designed to make sure when you do try to make some changes uh a it doesn't get out of control and B the number of problems associated with it you know Rebellion among the ranks um bleeding of cash that uh you can't

afford um doesn't happen so it is a way of making a big change and keeping it in a sense under control change leadership is much more associated with um putting an engine on the whole change process and making it go um faster smarter more efficiently um uh it's more Associated therefore with large scale changes change management tends to be more Associated at least when it works well with uh smaller changes um if you uh look around the world right now and just talk to people it it's not just sematics uh everybody talks about managing change

and change management because that's what they do um if you look at all of the tools uh they're they're uh trying to push things along U but it's trying to minimize disruptions I.E keep things under control it's trying to make sure uh change is done efficiently in the sense of you don't go over budget uh another control piece um it's done with um little change management groups inside corporations uh sometimes external Consultants that are good at that uh training in uh change management it's done with uh task forces that are basically given the um the

whole goal of uh push this thing along but keep it under control um uh it's done with uh various kinds of relationships that are given names like executive sponsors where the executive sponsor watches over this thing to make sure that it proceeds in an orderly way um and Chang leadership is just fundamentally uh different you know it's uh it's an engine it's uh it's it's more about urgency it's it's more about masses of people who want to make something happen um it's more about big Visions uh it's more about uh empowering lots and lots of

people um change leadership uh has the potential to get things a little bit out of control you don't have the same degree of of making sure that uh everything happens in a way you want at a time you want uh when you have the 1,000 horsepower uh engine um what you want to do of course is have a highly skilled driver and a heck of a car uh which will make sure your risks are minimum um but it is uh fundamentally uh different the world as we all know right now uh talks about thinks about

um and does change management uh the world as we all know um doesn't do much change leadership since change leadership is associated with the bigger leaps that we have to make associated with Windows of opportunity that are coming at as faster staying open um less time bigger hazards and bullet coming at is faster so you really have to make a larger leap at a faster speed uh change leadership is going to be uh the Big Challenge in the future and the fact that almost nobody is very good at it is uh well it's obviously a

big deal