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This pair of Canadian b-school profs detail a change process utilizing 10 “Winning Conditions” to create shared understanding, speed, and critical mass. They also show how to apply the process to five common organizational challenges: acquisition integration; new venture launches; IT roll-outs; organizational turnarounds; and culture changes.

Content: Book | Authors: Elspeth Murray, Peter Richardson | Subjects: Change Management, Organizational Behavior

Companies can transform the attitudes and behavior of their employees by applying psychological breakthroughs that explain why people think and act as they do.

Content: Article | Authors: Colin Price, Emily Lawson | Source: McKinsey Quarterly | Subjects: Change Management, Organizational Behavior

Orthodoxy is the enemy of renewal. The future gets created by heretics. And every organization must continuously work to redefine itself in ways that ensure that it does not get held hostage to its own moribund business model.

Content: Quotation | Source: Fast Company | Subject: Change Management

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The findings of one of the biggest pan European research projects suggest that senior executives get a big performance boost if they introduce complementary programmes of change.

Content: Article | Author: David Shaw | Source: European Business Forum (EBF) | Subjects: Change Management, Management

Ian Wells reports that leaders increasingly find bringing their own personal agenda out into the open is one of the most important factors in achieving major change.

Content: Article | Author: Ian Wells | Source: European Business Forum (EBF) | Subjects: Change Management, Management

Understand how change migrates from one group to the next, and you will dramatically increase your chances of success.

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Content: Article | Author: Brian Ward | Source: ManagerWise | Subject: Change Management

Corporate identity is a crucial component of all firms, yet it is often overlooked until a crisis forces companies to confront change, argue Wharton management professor John Kimberly and colleague Hamid Bouchikhi. Managers at Nissan and Danone Group took identity into account when instituting change, the researchers suggest, while managers at Vivendi and Hewlett-Packard didn’t. Ford is wrestling with the issue now. Kimberly and … [ Read more ]

Content: Article | Source: Knowledge@Wharton | Subjects: Change Management, Strategy

Jerry Sternin’s job was to help save starving children in Vietnam. Faced with an impossible time frame, he adopted a radical approach to making change. His idea: Real change begins from the inside.

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Content: Article | Author: David Dorsey | Source: Fast Company | Subject: Change Management

Many paths lead to higher performance. By using change checkpoints and improvement milestones we can chart our path’s success as we blaze our own trail toward ever-higher performance levels.

Content: Article | Author: Jim Clemmer | Subject: Change Management

Face it, resistance is real. No matter how brilliant or needed an idea, resistance will occur. It is a natural reaction to change. It protects people from what they think will harm them. Leaders who close their eyes to resistance are inviting disaster.

There is a better way: Build a foundation for change. Rather than assuming people will automatically love your idea, add strategies to … [ Read more ]

Content: Article | Author: Rick Maurer | Source: CEO Refresher | Subjects: Change Management, Leadership

What strategies can managers within transitional and transformational businesses use to garner sufficient resources to capture new opportunities and, accordingly, sustain the enterprise long-term? That was the central question discussed at Internet Home Alliance’s first Chairman’s Roundtable, an event designed to surface, discuss and debate issues critical to advancing the home technology market.

Content: Article | Source: Internet Home Alliance Chairman’s Roundtable | Subjects: Change Management, Management

Microsoft’s acquisition of Sweden-based software firm Sendit in 1999 is a classic example of the complexities of mergers and acquisitions. In this five-part Case Study series, authors Robert J. Crawford, Research Associate at INSEAD, and Maurizio Zollo, Associate Professor of Strategy and Management at INSEAD, take readers through each phase of the acquisition and integration process.

Content: Case Study | Authors: Maurizio Zollo, Robert Crawford | Source: INSEAD | Subject: Change Management | Companies: Microsoft, Sendit

People change their behavior when they are motivated to do so, and that happens when you speak to their feelings… You need something, often visual, that helps produce the emotions that motivate people to move more than one inch to the left or one inch to the right. Great leaders are brilliant at this. They tell the kind of stories that create pictures in your … [ Read more ]

Content: Quotation | Source: Leader to Leader | Subjects: Change Management, Leadership

Growth strategies do not fail because of the unknown — they fail because managers are unwilling to confront what is known.

Content: Quotation | Source: CEO Refresher | Subjects: Change Management, Management

Business consultant and author David Nadler draws on direct experiences with several top CEOs for this well-written book about organizational change, specifically “leadership change.” The 14 chapters fall roughly into three sections. In the first section Nadler surveys the forces that make change inevitable but so difficult for modern businesses. Then he presents several tools and techniques to treat organizational change, including planning, direction setting, … [ Read more ]

Content: Book | Author: David A. Nadler | Subjects: Change Management, Leadership

People tend to support best that which they help to create.

Content: Quotation | Source: Babson Insight | Subjects: Change Management, Management

In avoiding all pain and seeking comfort at all costs we may be left without mercy and compassion. In rejecting change and risk, we often cheat ourselves of the quest. In denying suffering, we may never know our strength and our greatness.

Content: Quotation | Source: CEO Refresher | Subjects: Change Management, Personality / Behavior

Managers are not good at managing change. Why? Because most managers are stewards and not leaders. They tend towards security, stability and predictability.

Content: Quotation | Source: ManagementLearning.com | Subjects: Change Management, Leadership

John P. Kotter, Harvard Business School professor, award-winning author of more than a dozen books on leadership and management, was recently rated by Business Week as America’s Number One “leadership guru.” In his best-selling book, Leading Change, he demystified the change process by distilling an eight-step process for implementing successful organizational transformations: 1. Increase Urgency, 2. Build the Guiding Team, 3. Get the Vision Right, … [ Read more ]

Content: Article | Author: John P. Kotter | Source: Leader to Leader | Subjects: Change Management, People