"This kind of questioning usually escalates when people become angry at the difficulty of producing needed change in highly interdependent systems. If channeled properly, these inquiries can be extremely helpful. **All organizations have some unnecessary interdependencies that are the product of history instead of the current reality**. Sales can’t do something without manufacturing’s approval because of a crisis that occurred in 1954, which led to that policy. **Cleaning up historical artifacts does create an even longer change agenda, which an exhausted organization will not like. But the purging of unnecessary interconnections can ultimately make a transformation much easier.** And in a world where change is increasingly the norm rather than the exception, cleaning house can also make all future reorganizing efforts or strategic shifts less difficult." --- **Tags** -- [[quotes]], [[organisational-culture]], [[change-management]], [[leadership]], [[systems-thinking]] **Source** -- [[20250320103315 - B - Leading Change]]