Leading Business Change For Dummies

by Christina Schlachter, Terry Hildebrant

Direct change expertly and lead your business to successChange is natural and good, but it can incite fear if not managed properly. "Leading Business Change For Dummies" arms mid- to senior-level managers with trusted guidance on leading, managing, responding to, and implementing change in the workplace. Packed with helpful advice and straightforward information, it gives you the skills needed to recognize the need for organizational change, deal with unexpected change, properly communicate a vision, prepare for structural change such as Mergers & Acquisitions, and address emotional responses to downsizing.

Leading Business Change For Dummies serves as the ultimate roadmap for integrating and consolidating a multitude of personnel and organizational change initiatives. With tools for managing stress levels and advice on gathering and sharing information during times of transition, Leading Business Change For Dummies covers everything you need to know to achieve successful leadership in a challenging work environment.Sound, practical guidance on how to understand, lead, and manage change in the workplaceCovers operational and cultural elements that can ultimately affect the success of a transaction over timeInformation and tips for implementing change in the workplace

If you're one of the thousands of managers who face change every day, "Leading Business Change For Dummies" has you covered.

384 pages, Paperback

First published June 14, 2012

Reviews

[David Roberts · Rating 4 out of 5]

The book I read to research this post was Leading Business Change For Dummies by Christina Tangora Schlacter et al which is a very good book which I bought from kindle. The process of leading business change as it pertains to most businesses is doing more with less people. Employees for most businesses are their biggest expense and they can use technology and different business models to achieve this. A couple of business models featured were agile where a team meets for 10-15 minutes several times a day to discuss a problem but otherwise works on its own. Another one developed in Japan is Kaizen where a small dedicated team works together on a problem continously and looks for continual improvements. There are other models like Lean & Six Sigma and many of these have dummies books about them so I may review them at a later time. The ideal way to lead business change is to be passionate about it and get others enthused about it and be able to explain it basically in a fashion that employees can easily understand along with see the benefits to them. Often companies will merge to make them more competitive and employees especially key one are usually given a retention allowance often in the form of stocks and shares to keep them in the new company. The amount normally has to be negotiated and beware of employees who want unreasonably high amounts of retention allowance as they are probably thinking of their self rather than the company. I did quite enjoy this book which is pretty good.