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The Change Masters

The Change Masters

My journey through change management work led me to The Change Masters  in an indirect way. When I mentioned that I was writing a course on change management, and I listed off several of the authors’ works I was using in the course, my colleague men...
Change: Principles of Problem Formulation and Problem Resolution

Change: Principles of Problem Formulation and Problem Resolution

My first highlight in Change: Principles of Problem Formulation and Problem Resolution is “… persistence and change need to be considered together, in spite of their apparently opposite nature.”  It is a fundamental truth of change that too often is lef...
Change the Culture, Change the Game: The Breakthrough Strategy for Energizing Your Organization and Creating Accountability for Results

Change the Culture, Change the Game: The Breakthrough Strategy for Energizing Your Organization and Creating Accountability for Results

Most books on change conveniently dodge the challenge of culture. After all, changing an organizational culture is difficult. It's easier to deliver a tactical project than it is to change the way that people think. However, Roger Connors and Tom Smith...
The Hard and Soft Sides of Change Management: Tools for Managing Process and People

The Hard and Soft Sides of Change Management: Tools for Managing Process and People

There's a great struggle between those who want to manage the project of change and those who want to make sure that everyone feels okay with the change. It's a struggle that's often obscured by the structure of the organization and the change process....
Leading Culture Change in Global Organizations: Aligning Culture and Strategy

Leading Culture Change in Global Organizations: Aligning Culture and Strategy

Daniel Denison and his colleagues, Robert Hooijberg, Nancy Lane, and Colleen Lief, are focused on how to change the culture of global organizations. Far from the approaches that work for individuals and aware of Peter Drucker's statement that culture...
Real Time Strategic Change

Real Time Strategic Change

In the game of buzzword bingo, this book has it all. Real Time Strategic Change has all the words that people want. They want the change to happen now (or in real time), and they want it to be strategic. Wouldn't it be nice if all change could be that...
Strategic Management: A Stakeholder Approach

Strategic Management: A Stakeholder Approach

Some things are just obvious. They are just the way that things have always been – except that they’re not. To me, the idea that you’d manage to your stakeholders seems like it should be the thing that has always been done, but I realized that it hasn’...