Barriers to change in organisations

There are many! And many ways of looking at them. I've been considering a few in a recent piece of research into public service delivery in the environmental field, (no pun intended). Amongst the recently mentioned are: inflexibility in organisations to move resources around; fear of getting into trouble - otherwise labelled here by Seth Godin as the 'Technically Beyond Reproach' attitude; and some flaw or limit to identifying a reason for change in the first place. This article over at 'How to change the world' has a whole lot more to say. Some funky little cartoons too.