All of us, including myself, have been involved in safety change efforts during our careers and have experienced varying degrees of success and failures. I have found with many safety change efforts, the process for change is fixed with virtually no deviation from the chosen path. Sometimes this works, most of the time it does not.
In August 2014, McKinsey & Company published their survey1, by the same title, wherein the authors surveyed over 2,200 global executives to discover the answer to the question, “How important is the way you implement a major change effort?” (www.mckinsey.com/insights/operations/Why_implementation_matters?cid=other-eml-alt-mip-mck-oth-1408)