Why Organizations Struggle So Hard to Improve So Little: Overcoming Organizational Immaturity

by Martin Klubeck, Michael Langthorne, and Donald Padgett

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A liberating look at the real reasons organization-wide improvement efforts fail and how, when all attempts have failed, you can help your organization to become great.

As the authors of this eye-opening new work make clear, to enact real change, organizations need to shake off their immaturity and grow up. Shifting away from the tendency to lay all the blame on bad leadership, Why Organizations Struggle So Hard to Improve So Little: Overcoming Organizational Immaturity offers specific answers for why most organizational improvement efforts fail.

Why Organizations Struggle So Hard to Improve So Little explains the difficulties and dangers of organizational immaturity, then provides proven, effective tools and ideas for achieving change within the limitations of an immature organization. With this guide, leaders and other stakeholders will be able to determine the maturity level of an organization, get beyond prevailing myths about how change gets derailed, and identify potential areas for improvement.


  • Includes assessments, policy framework plans, training plans, strategic plans, and other skill-building documents
  • Offers a bibliography with references to contemporary business improvement thinkers and key research into the likelihood of improvement failures
  • Provides a comprehensive index for easy and quick identification of areas of interest
  • ISBN10 0313380228
  • ISBN13 9780313380228
  • Publish Date 30 December 2009 (first published 1 January 2009)
  • Publish Status Active
  • Publish Country US
  • Publisher ABC-CLIO
  • Imprint Praeger Publishers Inc
  • Format Hardcover
  • Pages 222
  • Language English