Updated January 2006
My favorite Books
on Change
…David
Mays
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on the link to see the book notes.
Managing at the Speed of
Change, Daryl R.
Conner, Villard Books, 1993
Studies the patterns of change and principles of resilience
needed to reach the organization's optimum speed of transition.
Leading Change, James O’Toole, Jossey-Bass
Publishers, 1995
O’Toole insists on the necessity
of “moral, values-based” leadership.
The first half studies leaders, the second half, followers. Great list of reasons why people resist
change.
Leading Change, John P. Kotter, Harvard
Business School Press, 1996
An
eight-stage process of creating major change.
Leading Strategic
Change, J. Stewart
Black and Hal B. Gregersen, Prentice Hall,
2002
Lasting success lies in changing individuals first. An organization changes only as far or as
fast as its collective individuals change.”
“Instead of an organization in approach, we take an individual
out approach.
The Human Side of
Change, Timothy Galpin, Jossey Bass, 1996
A pragmatic approach to
the “soft” side of change management based on teams. Organizations don’t change people—people change
organizations.
Managing
Transitions, William Bridges, Addison-Wesley, 1991
Helping people cope with change
Better Change, Price Waterhouse Change
Integration Team, Irwin Professional Publishing, 1995 Nine basic steps to change.
Why Change Doesn't
Work, Harvey Robbins and Michael Finley, Peterson’s, 1996
One of the benefits of this book: “Your odds of surviving life in the blender should improve. The blender won’t slow down, but you will
get very good at dodging the blades.”
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