Leading Change: How Successful Leaders Approach Change Management

  • 4h 17m
  • Paul Lawrence
  • Kogan Page
  • 2015

It is often claimed that 70% of organizational change efforts fail, despite the popularity of linear change models, such as Kotter's 8-step model. The reason few change efforts succeed as intended is because they are based on two implicit assumptions: that the leader or leadership team will come up with a vision and then succeed in persuading the rest of the organization to follow, and that people will happily embrace change without being afforded the opportunity to make their own meaning of that change.

Leading Change offers an alternative. It provides a framework for change that opens opportunities for people within the organization to play a significant role in the process. Supported by academic research, and grounded with a range of examples and cases, the book offers a valuable approach to successful change management.

About the Author

OD expert and executive coach, Paul Lawrence is co-Director of the Centre for Systemic Change, a change management company based in Sydney. He was previously a Global Program Director for OD and Learning at BP.

In this Book

  • The Emerging Change Model
  • Dialogue and Communication
  • Listening
  • Voicing
  • Reflection
  • The Evolution of Perspective
  • The Evolution of Purpose
  • The Evolution of Identity
  • Power and Politics
  • Authenticity
  • Resistance to Change
  • Systemic Thinking
  • Case Study: The Emerging Change Model in Practice
  • Getting Started
  • Leadership
  • Building Capability
  • The Role of Coaching
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