Change Management is a pretty hot topic these days. You can't seem to be involved in any type of larger project without the discussion around change being put onto the table (and rightly so). Our organizations are made up of large numbers of individuals, and when we look to make transformative change, we are impacting many different processes and workflows which in turn impact larger and larger numbers of employees. Trending approaches today are heavily focused on communication. Basically get top level buy in, have that pushed down through each level of management, communicate changes, be transparent and try to make people feel "included" in the change (it is more complex then than that, feel free to Google to your heart's content for more information). The challenge or question for me however, sits more on the initial assumption that people will accept change once they understand it and see the value of the change for the organization. So then why is it s...