Change the Way You Lead Change Leadership Strategies that REALLY Work [Paperback]

Change is never a stepwise or easily prescribed process. Rather, it is messy and complicated, and its outcomes are easily swayed by a host of factors. In this context, leaders need to develop and utilizerealistic frameworksfor organizational change. They need to implement a holistic change model that defines and justifies the proposed change, and takes account of both the abilities of those who will be asked to lead and carry out the change, and thecontextin which the change is to occur.To develop such a model, Herold and Fedor examined more than 300 changes and interviewed over 8,000 individuals who lived through them. They then reality-tested their model by bouncing their ideas off hundreds of managers who were living change on a day-to-day basis. Those ideas are collected in this practical book, which will be of use to anyone who is likely to lead change initiatives in almost any organizational environmentfrom executives, to consultants, to management students. This book tells the truth about the difficulties in bringing about organizational change. It provides a method for deciding whether entering into a change process is appropriate for your organization, and it outlines what you must consider to carry it out successfully. It is necessary to read this book the moment the thought of change enters your mind. Walter Reichman, VP Sirota Survey Intelligence, and Professor Emeritus, Baruch College, CUNY Many leaders are good at determining what to change but falter in fully examining how to change, deciding when to change, and assessing the consequences of change. This book emphasizes these key lessons and provides many well tested ideas and tools for managing change. The examples of successful and unsuccessful leaders are vivid reminders of what can happen to strong companies when change is not well managed. Donna Hyland, CEO, Children's Healthcare of AtlantaThis book challenges the notion that change is a straight-forward matter, lending itselfl#Ç