I should have made clearer that “very new” was my paraphrase of McClure. I took her to be saying that in many large organizations, it would be unusual to float an idea or possible change past employees and ask for their input before making a decision.

I remember clearly a “change management process” at one large firm that boiled down to upper management telling the affected groups of employees “your groups are merging and you will work in new ways, starting today.”