re: Why do new managers always come in and want to change everything?

I’ve seen way too many times a manager take a well oiled machine and run it into the ground by making unnecessary changes. Sometimes managers feel like if they don’t change anything they aren’t doing their job, even if things were working well.

There’s pretty much a cycle that repeats itself with every new manager where by the end of their tenure they finally catch on and things go back to how they were when they were going well, then we get a new manager and they have to go through the whole process again of learning what works, but in the meantime they have to put their stamp on everything. Sometimes it’s the result of inexperience, sometimes it’s the result of misguided ambition and ego.