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No matter where you are in your career, you've probably dealt with some form of organizational change. Change can be a frightening prospect, and if you do not handle it correctly, it can lead to derailment. To be a successful leader, you must learn to adapt to a wide variety of situations, opportunities, and environments. This guidebook will show you how change affects you, your thoughts, and your emotions. It will give you tools and strategies that...
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In this book, Jutta Eckstein examines how retrospectives —originally a kind of a facilitated workshop for gaining feedback— can be applied conceptually to initiate and implement organizational change. Technically, retrospectives were an instrument for a group to examine a past joint period of time and learn from that. The participants of a Retrospective for Organizational Change do not share a joint past, yet they learn from their different individual...
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This manual builds on a millennial heritage to apply strategy that has come down to us from ancient Asia. Because the recommendations provided by its author, Sun Tzu, do not lose validity despite being more than 2,500 years old. It is known that it inspired many historical figures such as Napoleon or Machiavelli, and even in the strategies of the Vietnam revolutionaries. But all these applications were in the context of the war. Instead, the adaptation...
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The source of the problem is not so much the new, but the threat of the loss of the old. Resistance to change is often grudgingly accepted as an unavoidable challenge for organizations striving to remain competitive in the global marketplace. However, NOT ONE of the existing change methodologies has recognized, integrated, or even mentioned the true origin of the term Resistance. How can your organization avoid the 70% organizational change failure...
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The Expat Method, Mastering Personal and Organization Change aims to help you master change by focusing on both your personal and professional life.
It is based on 5 key dimensions that form the acronym EXPAT:
1. Emotions: change always implies emotions, and the more space you give to them, the more they help with transition. Holding back emotions can lead to stress, burnout and illness. It can also be a strong distractor when individuals or employees...
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In the ever-evolving landscape of business, organizations are constantly faced with the need to adapt and embrace change. Whether it's the introduction of new technologies, shifts in market dynamics, or internal restructuring, change management has become a crucial discipline for success. However, implementing change within an organization can be a complex and challenging process. That's where the concept of habit stacking comes into play – a powerful...
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When an Agile coach leaves an organization, the changes developed during their tenure should not roll backward. Compliance is somewhat easy to install and takes hold rather quickly. The challenge with that approach is that when the forcing mechanism (Agile coach) is removed, much of the compliance rolls back to the original position. Sustainable change requires a different strategy. This book introduces the concept of utilizing an Invitational Approach...
9) Critical Business Skills for Success: Organizational Behavior: Leading Real Organizational Change
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The one unavoidable part of an organization: change. After investigating the three essential ingredients of organizational change, focus on the kind of practical steps you can take to achieve change in your organization. Among them: how to make it about problem solving and how to cultivate a sense of urgency and speed.
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Whether planned or unexpected, change presents leaders with their toughest sustained challenges-regardless of the leader's seniority or the organization's size. For many leaders, change brings drama-and the replaying of familiar stories.
In A Question of Leadership, Keith Leslie provides a wide range of illustrative case studies derived from both research and his firsthand experience in the public and private sectors as a former partner at both Deloitte...
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Everyone talks about the need to restructure organizations to meet new challenges, but until now no one has developed an effective approach to ending employee burnout and "business as usual." Parzival's Briefcase presents a revolutionary but simple strategy: the starting point for change is individual integrity and personal responsibility.
Whether the organization is a corporation or a single department, a government agency or a small business, there...
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While 70% of all organizational change initiatives fail, this one succeededand improved telecom producer Mitel Corporations bottom line profitability by a factor of 40.Like many organizations, Mitels entrenched processes, procedures and policiesits Sacred Cowshad resulted in products that were slow getting to market. When they did get to market many products had quality problems. The sluggish company culture was also making it impossible for Mitel...
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Change as Collaborative Play is a playful method for change management in organizations. It shows the dynamics in which professionals play a role and collaborate in preparing their organization for the future. The model offers inspiration and practical tools for those who want to contribute to the development of their organization and themselves.
Change as Collaborative Play is essential reading for professionals, leaders, (change) managers, board...
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Mauro F. Guillén is Associate Professor of Management and of Sociology at the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania. A former Guggenheim Fellow, he is the author of Models of Management: Work, Authority, and Organization in a Comparative Perspective and the coauthor of The AIDS Disaster.
This book challenges the widely accepted notion that globalization encourages economic convergence--and, by extension, cultural homogenization--across...
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Cutting-edge insights for succeeding in times of chaotic change Today's world is best described by one word: turbulence. Every leader today knows they need to be nimble, agile and resilient -- but how? In this engaging and insightful new book, management strategist and Wharton Fellow Baba Prasad sheds new light on the subject, and offers practical advice for executives, entrepreneurs, and anyone else who'll need the skills to face the unpredictability,...
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"Steer your organization away from burnout while boosting all-around performance The Happy, Healthy Nonprofit presents realistic strategies for leaders looking to optimize organizational achievement while avoiding the common nonprofit burnout. With a uniquely holistic approach to nonprofit leadership strategy, this book functions as a handbook to help leaders examine their existing organization, identify trouble spots, and resolve issues with attention...
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"Maurer uses his knowledge of the brain and human psychology to show what I have promoted for the past three decades -- that continuous improvement is built on the foundation of people courageously using their creativity. Kaizen is much more than a world-class management practice; it is a technique to remove fear from our mind's mind, enabling us to take small steps to better things. The process of change starts with awareness and desire in our minds...
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