{"id":6493,"date":"2026-03-21T19:35:25","date_gmt":"2026-03-21T11:35:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/moresourcing.com\/when-senior-leaders-lack-people-skills-transformations-fail\/"},"modified":"2026-03-21T19:35:25","modified_gmt":"2026-03-21T11:35:25","slug":"when-senior-leaders-lack-people-skills-transformations-fail","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/moresourcing.com\/ar\/when-senior-leaders-lack-people-skills-transformations-fail\/","title":{"rendered":"When Senior Leaders Lack People Skills, Transformations Fail"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_text__yGFNO\" data-first-paragraph=\"true\">\u201cMindy,\u201d a chief transformation officer at a growth biotech firm, was six weeks into a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mckinsey.com\/capabilities\/transformation\/our-insights\/common-pitfalls-in-transformations-a-conversation-with-jon-garcia\" class=\"ContentLink_anchor__Q6_U6\">transformation<\/a> when the data told her what her senior team couldn\u2019t see: Engagement scores had dropped 40%. Turnover had doubled. And no one at the executive table had seen it coming.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><script async=\"\" defer=\"\" crossorigin=\"anonymous\" src=\"https:\/\/connect.facebook.net\/en_US\/sdk.js#version=v19.2&amp;appId=1761258887507575&amp;xfbml=false&amp;status=true\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>#Senior #Leaders #Lack #People #Skills #Transformations #Fail<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cMindy,\u201d a chief transformation officer at a growth biotech firm, was six weeks into a transformation when the data told her what her senior team couldn\u2019t see: Engagement scores had dropped 40%. Turnover had doubled. 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