I’ve acted as a leader, and helped companies go through so called transformations. I think change management is fleeting to some extent as a term. I tell myself as well as those I work with our jobs as leaders are pretty simple but they are an obligation. Being a VP is not a perk or an honor to hold over people. It is a service position, a position as guide. It is not about telling but usually about understanding, clarifying direction, encouraging them to do what they do to get the outcome the business needs.

1. Our job is to keep some things stable, and turn other things into must change efforts. That is why being an effective sponsor of change is so important. You can’t delegate it. If you cross the line of having too many must haves, you have none. Interesting impact of too many must haves is then you also will lose stability because if you are not being reborn, you are dying.- Dillon. It applies to everyone, every organization.
2. Second, your job is to develop people to their potential and the company need at the same time. It is again your obligation to provide leadership. If your people don’t trust you, and don’t perform, or don’t deliver on something you say should be simple, look in the mirror to find where the fault lies.