Organizational Change Management

Change initiatives fail because humans are hardwired to return to what's worked for us in the past. This book offers a straightforward process for rewiring ourselves and those we lead to be more change-capable.

Change-Friendly Leadership: How to Transform Good Intentions into Great Performance is a simple affirmation that successful organizational change involves - requires, in fact - the active, willful participation of the people affected by the change. In the change approach prescribed here, the friendly factor is not just a play on words; it is the very foundation for effectively engaging people's heads, hearts, and hopes.

No one is immune to these rocky economic times. Innovative businesspeople all over the country are adapting their organizational structures to survive, profit, and compete in today's unreliable market. The practical and relevant advice in Transformational Leadership: A Blueprint for Real Organizational Change by Randy Dobbs can be applied to major corporations and small businesses alike, as well as to nonprofits, universities, hospitals, and other institutions.

Are you a CEO in a small business or start-up company interested in aligning business and talent strategy to inspire your employees? Are you an HR “Department of One” professional looking to create a legacy project and be recognized as a more strategic partner? This book is for you! Practical steps to implement immediately A set of tools for effective people leadership Real-life examples of how a leadership development program gives rise to self-motivated, high- performance individuals (and teams) that produce long-term results and a competitive advantage for your business. With The ...

Leading change is not about breaking things - it’s about using empathy to enrich the world. In Empathy for Change: How to Create an Understanding World, former White House entrepreneur-in-residence Amy J. Wilson dives into the intricate science of empathy, debunking common myths and sharing practical uses for a better society.

To overcome the radically different challenges of inequity, division, and scarcity of resources that will only increase in the future, the most successful and valuable leaders are those with the traits to be rebuilders. Taking Charge of Change is written for anyone seeking to be the driver of real change and an integral part of rebuilding the structures and foundations of American communities and companies throughout the decade ahead.

Why are some organizations more innovative than others? How can we tap in to, empower, and leverage the natural innovation within our organizations that is so vital to our future success? Now more than ever, companies and institutions of all types and sizes are determined to create more innovative organizations. In study after study, leaders say that fostering innovation and the need for transformational change are among their top priorities.

This audiobook will help you comprehend the significance of conducting an external analysis to assist in the development of efficient strategic plans for organizational management. In addition, it explains how conducting an external analysis can help strategists detect possible threats and obstacles, as well as help them identify opportunities they may wish to explore further.

Executives are waking up to unprecedented levels of disruption. They’re facing new challenges from all angles that threaten the very viability of their organizations. Disruptions could be from more agile competitors, increased regulation, changes in consumer tastes or the ongoing development of new technologies. No matter what it is, you can expect change to be happening everywhere. Making New Mistakes is the go-to book for leaders looking for guidance on how to handle these disruptive events. It’s the guide that will prepare you for the next event, because it’s not if but when. Learn...

The authors of The Phoenix Encounter Method don't advise safety. In fact, their method of leadership thinking requires you to imagine burning your business to the ground - throwing yourself into a firestorm change - and turning the upheaval to your organization's advantage. It can then rise, phoenix-like, from the ashes, stronger and more powerful than ever.

One of the nation's leading psychologists asks why today's corporate leaders desire but reject creative solutions - and finds some surprising conclusions.

As climate change becomes an international crisis, more and more industries are looking for a sound model for creating successful environmentally friendly companies, and a new generation of young leaders are eager for inspiration and guidance on creating sustainable businesses. Mid-Course Correction Revisited advocates why we need to create prototypical green companies and a new economy - not based on non-renewable resources, but on renewable energy, aggressive recycling, innovative technology, and sustainable business practices.

ATTENTION STUDENTS: If you need to write a paper on risk management or crisis management, then this is the perfect reference. It's simple, easy to understand, and right to the point. Risk Management in Organizations Risk management is an appealing concept due to the uncertainty that exists in many organizations. It is more important today than it ever was in the past, and that importance appears to be growing. Based on its popularity, risk management is taking center stage in the thought processes of leaders all over the world. This book focuses on risk management in organizations. It ...

You will never come across a business person who wishes for his or her business to end when he or she leaves. If an organization chooses not to embrace change, it will have no customers because people only buy things that meet their needs. For this reason, an organization needs to ensure that it stays ready for what is to come. The way to do this is to continually sharpen own tools by creating a learning environment so that own employees learn all business and change-related tricks to help them maneuver the business world.

Leading Change offers an alternative. It provides a framework for change that opens opportunities for people within the organization to play a significant role in the process. Supported by academic research, and grounded with a range of examples and cases, the book offers a valuable approach to successful change management.

Lisa Gable, turnaround mastermind, offers a clear-headed, straightforward method for getting you back on track. For more than 30 years, Lisa Gable has been called to turn around failing organizations and solve seemingly intractable problems. From Silicon Valley to Washington DC, she’s seen it all. Over time, she has learned that the key to course-correct when things go south is applying the discipline of process engineering with diplomacy and humanity, taking care of relationships, and forging strong partnerships.

The inability to modify available information technologies is a shock to leaders and managers alike. Cloud-based technologies arrive with set processes developed by others, and users must learn new ways of working each time the technologies themselves evolve...To adopt efficiently and adapt effectively to behavior-changing technologies, astute leaders should employ change leadership techniques as a strategy for the digital era. This audiobook offers technology takers a playbook to manage change, create value, and exploit the digital era's strategic opportunities.

How humans decide what to believe, in their professional and personal lives, is vital. It applies to organizational change, our interest area, but also critically to life, such as health and medical decisions, fake news, politics, and more. Much of the sifting and winnowing of information, of separating wheat from chaff, that turns information into knowledge, however, is done subconsciously using heuristics (mental shortcuts) to decide whom to trust and what to believe. Once people decide which authorities and evidence to trust, they get on with life without returning to questions such as ...

This essential guide for Human Resource, Project Management, and Change Professionals provides a framework for a simpler and faster approach to help individuals and organizations adopt new program, technological platforms, and systems easily and effectively.Through an engaging narrative story, we meet Elizabeth, an HR Manager who is asked to implement a technology change for the physicians and staff at the healthcare company where she works. Exploring Elizabeth's challenges and opportunities allows the reader to identify with the story and apply the READY-Set-Change Model.This book balances...

Companies need to grow, innovate, and adapt to changing needs. But stressed-out employees rarely go the extra mile, chaos rarely produces agility or speed, and it’s hard innovate or grow while bleeding talent to turnover and quiet quitting. This is how change stymies the very progress that it seeks. Drawing on decades spent leading HR operations at Deloitte and Cisco, Ashley Goodall explores the essential nature of human performance and offers a radical new alternative to the constant turbulence that defines corporate life.