Carrying out a huge leadership transformation in the organization is no longer the HR key job. The HR fleet in most organizations are service administrators not transformers. I know many HR and OD people who have a strong desire to change, but they are stuck between senior management old mentality and their relentless desire to change. Their mandate is very constrained. They are processers not transformers.

Resolving this issue requires the leaders’ full mandate to change the dynamic of the HR department from administration to transformation. In the industrial-age management style centric- organizations, making this shift is difficult and doomed. “Everything rises and falls on leadership”. John Maxwell. This quote sums up the major problem in most organizations.