Larman’s Laws
Larman’s Laws of Organizational Behavior describe how established organizations resist structural change to preserve existing management hierarchies and power dynamics. Developed by Craig Larman through decades of organizational consulting, these empirical observations outline five patterns: organizations optimize to maintain the status quo, redefine new initiatives to mean the same thing, dismiss genuine change efforts as impractical, co-opt displaced managers as coaches, and operate on the principle that “culture follows structure” in large organizations rather than the reverse.