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Taking Charge Of Change Douglas Smith

Taking Charge Of Change By Douglas Smith

Taking Charge Of Change by Douglas Smith


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Summary

The step-by-step guide to the most pressing management problem of our time, by the coauthor of the bestseller The Wisdom of Teams.

Taking Charge Of Change Summary

Taking Charge Of Change: Ten Principles For Managing People And Performance by Douglas Smith

Cooking up great ideas of how things ought to be is easy. Getting things to actually change is hard, especially in large, complex organizations. The meeting about the new vision goes over fine, then everyone drifts back to his or her office and nothing changes. This book provides the diagnostic tools managers need to assess their particular needs for change, and then the tool kit required to implement the changes one wants to see.

About Douglas Smith

Douglas K. Smith is a private consultant who has worked with such corporations as AmEx, Duracell, IBM, and Nabisco. Along with The Wisdom of Teams, his books include Fumbling the Future: How Xerox Invented Then Ignored the First Personal Computer. He holds a B.A. from Yale and a J.D. from Harvard. He lives in Millbrook, New York.

Table of Contents

* Introduction Principles * Getting Through the Period of Change * Enlisting People to Perform and Change: Managing Through Reluctance * Performance Results: Managing the Link Between Purpose and Change * Leadership: The Courage to Live the Change Strategies * Existing Employees, New Behaviors: Do You Face This Challenge? * Getting Beyond Decisions and Awareness to Performance and Change * Exchange, Mutuality, and Coordination * Shaping and Improvising Strategies that Work Visions * Energy and Meaningful Language:The How Part of Vision * Reconnecting Organization Designs to People, Performance, and Work * Personalizing Your Vision of Change

Additional information

GOR003791912
9780201916041
0201916045
Taking Charge Of Change: Ten Principles For Managing People And Performance by Douglas Smith
Used - Very Good
Paperback
INGRAM PUBLISHER SERVICES US
19970417
336
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