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Changing the Way We Change
Change is always a difficult and expensive proposition for any organization, and yet the ability to change - to adapt to rapidly shifting demands and developing technologies - is an essential ingredient for success in today's fast-paced business environment.
Change is so important and so risky that it cannot be left to chance. This book offers a systematic plan of action for initiating, implementing, and dealing with change. Using a case study of a manufacturing organization's challenge to change its engineering processes, it gives you the practical knowledge and skills you need to implement change successfully for significant improvements in efficiency and quality.
You will gain an in-depth understanding of all the critical change factors, including the process of change and its impact on people within an organization. You will learn how to cope with the "delta," the chaotic transitional stage between the status quo and the future, and will come to understand the role of change sponsors, agents, and targets. Numerous tools that facilitate change are discussed in detail, and a comprehensive example demonstrates how all of these factors come into play.
Most important, you will develop a new perspective on change - not as a one-time phenomenon, but as a continual process of adaptation that can become an integral part of the way your organization operates.
Change is so important and so risky that it cannot be left to chance. This book offers a systematic plan of action for initiating, implementing, and dealing with change. Using a case study of a manufacturing organization's challenge to change its engineering processes, it gives you the practical knowledge and skills you need to implement change successfully for significant improvements in efficiency and quality.
You will gain an in-depth understanding of all the critical change factors, including the process of change and its impact on people within an organization. You will learn how to cope with the "delta," the chaotic transitional stage between the status quo and the future, and will come to understand the role of change sponsors, agents, and targets. Numerous tools that facilitate change are discussed in detail, and a comprehensive example demonstrates how all of these factors come into play.
Most important, you will develop a new perspective on change - not as a one-time phenomenon, but as a continual process of adaptation that can become an integral part of the way your organization operates.
226 pages, Hardcover
First published January 15, 1995
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November 4, 2022
I do not see anything special in this book and the only advantage is that it is not bloated into 500-600 pages, as other authors like to do.
I also do not understand about what "author's methodology" some readers write? All that is written in this book is nothing more than common sense and paraphrasing of some things from disciplines such as systems theory and behaviorism for example.
In a few words, what the book is about:
Change is the transition from the present state to the desired future state.
Accordingly, in order to do this, it is necessary to describe the future and the present state of one's system and to design a transition plan.
This plan includes various elements like processes, structures, performance indicators, people and so on.
To eliminate the resistance to change from people it is necessary to use a complex set of tools such as communication, training and a new system of motivation, etc.
This is basically the whole point of the book as well as 1500 other books on this topic.
If you know anything about system, system's principles, behaviorism and motivation theories, you will not need to read such books.
I also do not understand about what "author's methodology" some readers write? All that is written in this book is nothing more than common sense and paraphrasing of some things from disciplines such as systems theory and behaviorism for example.
In a few words, what the book is about:
Change is the transition from the present state to the desired future state.
Accordingly, in order to do this, it is necessary to describe the future and the present state of one's system and to design a transition plan.
This plan includes various elements like processes, structures, performance indicators, people and so on.
To eliminate the resistance to change from people it is necessary to use a complex set of tools such as communication, training and a new system of motivation, etc.
This is basically the whole point of the book as well as 1500 other books on this topic.
If you know anything about system, system's principles, behaviorism and motivation theories, you will not need to read such books.
March 13, 2014
This is Jeanenne's first on her ground breaking methodology for Change Management. Although her following book was a lighter reading and it incorporated some new learnings, I still find this first book the very great one. In a story telling fashion it takes you through the challenge of "managing" change, understanding the reasons why individuals would resist, and how you could help people overcome their resistances and embrace the changes. The substitute book, 'Master Change, Maximize Success' is also great but my heart still goes to this first one.
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