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Organizational Change In The American Colonies

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Change is inevitable (Ecclesiastes 3, NIV) and that timing is a critical part of this process, which according to Burke (2013) can be either revolutionary or evolutionary. Organizational change, the outgrowth of strategic thinking and planning often competes with strong human emotion (Wimberly, 2007) and behaviors that often put up a valent fight and resistance to changing attitudes and values in favor of a new culture (Burke, 2013), irrespective of the outcome, which could be permanent (Beach, 2006). For example, Great Britain, as an organization, resisted revolutionary change when the American colonies refused to submit to the taxation without representation, which led to strong emotions, resistance, a valent fight (the Revolutionary War).

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