%% #📓 #📄 #🔴 %% # Innovations in Transforming Organizations **Author(s):** R. L. SImpson **Citation:** Simpson, R. L. (2009). Innovations in transforming organizations. _Nursing Administration Quarterly, 33_(3), 268-272. --- # Abstract ## Key Takeaways # Notes & Important Ideas ## Connections to Other Materials # Personal Reflection & Application ### Impatience is Barrier to Transformation Transformation has probably always been hard, but I imagine it is even more difficult in this era of short sound-bites and quick fixes. Many people, and sometimes organizations, seem to be looking for instant gratification. They'll try something new but if it doesn't work, or doesn't work as well as they expected it to, the first time they give up. Change can happen quickly, it happens all the time, but transformation is a slow process - a journey. And it's often not a straight path. Which means it takes patience and persistence to stay on the journey and eventually experience transformation. I think the key for leaders and organizations in developing patience is to scale down. Sweeping change, or large-scale transformation, is hard for many people to wrap their minds around. It's overwhelming. Instead it might be wiser to look for ways to make smaller, incremental changes. One article that looked at three case studies of successful transformation in healthcare organizations found that "transformation occurred only after a journey built upon multitudes of seemingly small, interconnected changes" (Simpson, 2009, p. 268). It's easy to look back at significant transformations once they're complete and for it to seem like it was fast. But it rarely feels that way while we're in the thick of it. --- # Other References ## Tags *<small>Created on: 2022-11-25</small>* *<small>Last modified on: NaN</small>*