Workforce Clinging to the Status Quo?

Here is today's management tip from Harvard Business Publishing.

Your major change initiative won't succeed if the people who must lead the charge lack a sense of urgency--the conviction that the status quo is dangerous. How to spot a lack of urgency so you can address it? Red flags include the following:
1) Managers over-rely on consultants to analyze the business and recommend changes.
2)Key people aren't participating in the task force charged with executing the initiative.
3)Task-force members procrastinate in setting up their meetings.
4)Task-force discussions only generate complaints about the company's situation, not active decisions.
5)Task-force members focus more on office politics and finger-pointing than on what's causing the company's problems.

(This Management Tip was adapted from Chapter 2 of A Sense of Urgency, bestselling author John P. Kotter's latest book from Harvard Business Press.)