Reddit - Unnecessarily Difficult Change Management

Reddit found itself on the front page of the news this week as more than 2,000 community moderators continued their protest against the platform and co-founder CEO Steve Huffman. Focused around a change to the company's API pricing and the resulting loss of features from 3rd-party developers, the protest seems one-part anger about the policy change and one-part grief for how the corporate side of Reddit is evolving the platform as it heads towards its upcoming IPO. Huffman, for his part, could not seem to care less. As Huffman pushes forward with his plans while moderators attempt to slow him down, we can all learn about some common pitfalls that occur in organizational change management and the tactics we can use to avoid them.