The Change Champion S Field Guide

Nearly a decade later, leading change pioneers in the field have realigned to bring you the second edition of the Change Champion's Fieldguide. This thoroughly revised and updated edition of the Change Champion's Field Guide is filled with the information, tools, and strategies needed to implement a best practice change or leadership development initiative where everyone wins. In forty-five chapters, the guide's contributors, widely acknowledged as the "change champions" and leaders in the fields of organizational change and leadership development, explore the competencies and practices that define an effective change leader. Change Champions such as Harrison Owen, Edgar Schein, Marv Weisbord, Sandra Janoff, Mary Eggers, William Rothwell, Dave Ulrich, Marshall Goldsmith, Judith Katz, Peter Koestenbaum, Dick Axelrod, David Cooperrider, and scores of others provide their sage advice, practical applications, and examples of change methods that work. Change Champion's Field Guide examines the topic of leadership and change within four main topics including: Key elements of leading successful and results-driven change Tools, models, instruments, and strategies for leading change Critical success and failure factors Trends and research on innovation, change, and leadership Guidelines on how to design, implement, and evaluate change and leadership initiatives Fresh case studies that highlight leading companies who are implementing successful change in innovative and inspired ways.

The practical implementation guide to John Kotter’s revolutionary 8-step change process and the “See-Feel-Change” approach as introduced in Leading Change and The Heart of Change. John Kotter’s change bible Leading Change has sold nearly 490,000 copies since publication in 1996 and The Heart of Change, co-written with Dan Cohen, has sold nearly 125,000 copies. Now, Dan Cohen delivers a highly practical, hands-on complement to both of these books in The Heart of Change Field Guide. Filled with practical tools, checklists and advice, this book will guide leaders and managers step-by-step through real change programs within their organisations.

"The Change Champion's Fieldguide" contains successful tools, instruments, case studies, and models from the best in the industry that readers can apply for initiating and leading change within a social or organizational system.

The Change Champion's Fieldguide is an awesome resource for anyone working on building organizational capacity and capability. This book gives you a wealth of pragmatic and leading-edge lessons from practitioners who have a passion and commitment to accelerating business results through people. It's a resource I will continually use and you will too! - Susan Burnett, Vice President for Workforce Development and Organizational Effectiveness, Hewlett-Packard. The Fieldguide is a fine collection of thoughts, ideas, directions, experiences and tools to be used for any organization to promote change and encourage growth. - F. Nicholas Jacobs, President/CEO, Windber Medical Center and the Windber Research Institute. The Change Champion's Fieldguide will become one of the most quoted, referenced, and used business books in the first decade of the 2000's. - Vijay Govindarajan, Earl C. Daum 1924 Professor of International Business, Director, Center for Global Leadership, Tuck School of Business, Dartmouth College. Machiavelli once said, 'Change has no constituency.' This compendium of readings will help change agents develop and enroll all manner of constituencies. - Warren Bennis, Distinguished Professor of Business, USC, and co-author of Geeks and Geezers and On Becoming a Leader. The Fieldguide is a treasure trove of case studies, models and tools from which leaders, who view themselves as agents of change in their organization can learn from and apply in a practical way. - Bob Weigand, Director, Management Training & Development, St. Luke's Hospital and Health Network. Finally there is a book that shows you how to lead change (versus only what it looks like when you get there). It's like reading a repair manual versus a sales brochure. Bravo to the authors! - R. Dixon Thayer, Former CEO, Ford Global New Business Operations, and Senior Partner, ab3 Resources Inc.

When it was published in 2000, Coaching for Leadership became an instant classic in the field of executive coaching. This second edition updates and expands on the original book and brings together the best executive coaches who offer a basic understanding of how coaching works, why it works, and how leaders can make the best use of the coaching process. This thoroughly revised edition reflects recent changes in coaching practices, includes well-researched best practices, and provides additional guidance and tools from the greatest leadership coaches from around the world. Each chapter in this important volume addresses a proven application, offers key principles of practice, and highlights critical learning points.

This is the perfect "field manual" for every supply chain or operations management practitioner and student. The field's only single-volume reference, it's uniquely convenient and uniquely affordable. With nearly 1,500 well-organized definitions, it can help students quickly map all areas of operations and supply chain management, and prepare for case discussions, exams, and job interviews. For instructors, it serves as an invaluable desk reference and teaching aid that goes far beyond typical dictionaries. For working managers, it offers a shared language, with insights for improving any process and supporting any training program. It thoroughly covers: accounting, customer service, distribution, e-business, economics, finance, forecasting, human resources, industrial engineering, industrial relations, inventory management, healthcare management, Lean Sigma/Six Sigma, lean thinking, logistics, maintenance engineering, management information systems, marketing/sales, new product development, operations research, organizational behavior/management, personal time management, production planning and control, purchasing, reliability engineering, quality management, service management, simulation, statistics, strategic management, systems engineering, supply and supply chain management, theory of constraints, transportation, and warehousing. Multiple figures, graphs, equations, Excel formulas, VBA scripts, and references support both learning and application. "... this work should be useful as a desk reference for operations management faculty and practitioners, and it would be highly valuable for undergraduates learning the basic concepts and terminology of the field." Reprinted with permission from CHOICE http://www.cro2.org, copyright by the American Library Association.

Organization Development: The Process of Leading Organizational Change offers a comprehensive look at individual, team, and organizational change, covering classic and contemporary organization development (OD) techniques. Bestselling author Donald L. Anderson provides students with the organization development tools they need to succeed in today’s challenging environment defined by globalization, rapidly changing technologies, economic pressures, and evolving workforce expectations. The new Fifth Edition has been updated to reflect the latest research. New "Profiles in OD" highlight a variety of practitioners and researchers. New cases, examples, and a new chapter on organization design and culture interventions provide readers with the latest information on OD best practices.