by Colin Williams (Author), George Binney (Author), George Binney (Author), Colin Williams (Author)
This volume challenges conventional thinking about "managing" change, the obsession with fads such as "re-engineering", "TQM" and "vision and values" and the flood of change initiatives that engulf many organizations. Drawing on their work with over 100 international companies and public organizations, the authors show how many managers are unwittingly stopping change happening. The harder they try, the less their organizations change - causing exhaustion and frustration. The book examines how, in the authors' experience, organizations really change, how they learn to adapt to changing circumstances and what lessons managers can draw from this. They show how to release the natural energy for change which exists in people's hopes and ambitions, and in the well-known, but often unspoken, issues which frustrate and de-motivate staff and customers. They explore how to take account of the systemic nature of organizations, where actions do not have simple causes and effects, but can have unpredictable, wide-reaching consquences. They aim to show how, by allowing people to use the wisdom they have accumulated through life, managers can enable their organizations to flourish. The book was shortlisted for the MCA and Financial Times/Booz-Allen & Hamilton Prizes.
Format: Paperback
Pages: 192
Edition: New e.
Publisher: Nicholas Brealey Publishing
Published: 13 Feb 1997
ISBN 10: 1857880838
ISBN 13: 9781857880830
Book Overview: Shortlisted 1995 MCA Book Prize;Shortlisted 1996 Booz Allen & Hamilton / Financial Times Global Business Book of the Year
Prizes: Shortlisted for Booz Allen & Hamilton / Financial Times Global Business Book of the Year 1996 and MCA Book Prize 1995.