If a person tries to short-cut grieving steps, they will actually delay recovery that includes learning and adaptation to new circumstances. All of this thinking reminded me of my own consulting using the Social Readjustment Rating Scale. This is an instrument developed more than two decades ago at the University of Washington Medical School. A high score determined from such events predicted the likelihood of hospitalization for physical or emotional illness. For companies read projects and you see the consequences of the project experience.
Companies have a pervasive culture that managers take for granted.
Projects for or within companies provide an opportunity to maximize the advantages of changes with project participants. Back at the last turn of the century, the Gilbreaths did early work in scientific management. Using formal observation including the first industrial use of motion picture photography they analyzed physical work. In a steel mill's open-hearth furnace, one job required an individual to fill a shovel with coal, carry it to the furnace mouth and toss it in. Early managers were concerned that the shovelers returned to the coal-bin with an empty shovel when ash and clinkers could have been carried away from the furnace.