Despite extensive research and methodologies, a significant majority of organizational change initiatives fail to achieve their intended impact. This article posits that a primary reason for this failure in our globally interconnected world is a neglect of culturally shaped motivational drivers. While the foundational meta-strategies for change—Empirical-Rational, Normative-Reeducative, and Power-Coercive—identified by Chin and Benne (1969) remain psychologically and sociolog