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The Unshackled Organization : Facing the Challenge of UnpredictabilityBy Jeffrey Goldstein - Consultant and management professor Jeffrey Goldstein examines new territory with his exploration into how change happens within an organization. Suggested by Organization Development practitioners (Added: 17-Feb-2002 Hits: 809 )Aftershock : Helping People Through Corporate ChangeBy Harry Woodward - A number of the books on this page are books for thinkers. This is a book with an applied focus, as the title indicates. Includes case studies, dialogues, and step by step processes to help employees through corporate change. Recommended not only for managers and supervisors, but also for human resource personnel (Added: 17-Feb-2002 Hits: 772 )The Innovator's DilemmaBy Clayton M. Christensen - Written by a Harvard Business School Professor, this is one of the most popular titles at Amazon.com. Christensen talks about the effects of disruptive technologies and their effects on companies that are doing things right, but end up on the rocks. Has received numerous positive reviews. Probably most suitable for those involved in generating innovation, or in charge of innovation. (Added: 17-Feb-2002 Hits: 775 )The Dance of ChangeBy Peter M. Senge, Art Kleiner - Senge is one of the "newer" gurus, having authored the Fifth Discipline and is most often associated with the Learning Organization concept. Warren Bennis, famed author and management guru suggests that this book is a refreshing take on organizational change, and also calls it sometimes "quirky". Quirky is probably goodBeyond Certainty : The Changing Worlds of OrganizationsBy Charles Handy - Charles Handy has been described as one of the leading management thinkers in the U.K. A prolific writer, he has a number of books out, several of them on the issue of change in our workplaces. Click on the book cover to the left for more indepth details, reader reviews and book review comments. Highly recommended. (Added: 17-Feb-2002 Hits: 1234 )Leading ChangeBy John P. Kotter - Kotter's thesis is that strategies for change often fail in corporations because the changes do not alter behavior. He identifies the most common mistakes in effecting change, offering eight steps to overcoming obstacles. The eight-step process consists of establishing a sense of urgency by analyzing competition and identifying potential crises (Added: 17-Feb-2002 Hits: 1498 )Related Categories:
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