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Managing At the Speed of Change
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Sales rank 26,119
Customers rating (based on 14 reviews)
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aryl Conner runs the world's premier consulting firm devoted exclusively to change. Here, he coaches middle- and top-level executives in implementing business innovations on time and under budget.
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| Publisher | Random House | | Release date | 01/1993 | | Availability | Usually ships in 24 hours | | Edition | Hardcover |
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I was very pleased with the book I ordered. It was in excellent service and it arrived in a timely manner. Thank you for such great service.
Managing at the Speed of Change
If you want to know why people react the way they do with regard to change in the work place, at home, or in life, this is the book for you. You will be guided in how to help reduce the level of anxiety when change is implemented. This is a wonderful book.
Facing the Beast Called Change - This Book Does That Superbly
I have lived through over a decade of watching companies waste millions on failed software implementations, sales initiatives, and -- yes--the much dreaded "Business Process Re-engineering."
After reading Daryl's book three times, I have distilled his 30 years' of wisdom down to some probing questions. I recommend every company undergoing significant change consider these questions as "book discussion guide..."
1. What is the most profound change you face as a leader? Please think through all lenses, including client changes, industry, regulatory, global, demographic, political, environmental, technology, and personal/health/spiritual/relationships.
2. Daryl Conner says "our lives are the most effective and efficient when we are moving at a speed that allows us to appropriately assimilate the changes we face."
What phase of assimilation is your team experiencing now? (Chapter 8)
3. "Future shock" is the point where humans can no longer assimilate change without displaying dysfunctional behavior. Name 3 dysfunctional behaviors that represent future shock in your company.
Now describe how you would help your colleague change those behavior(s). (pages 55-57).
4. Conner describes how "The Beast" loves to take dreams and turn them into nightmares. What is the loudest message The Beast says within your culture?
5. What are the top 3 change initiatives within your organization today?
6. What key values (behaviors, beliefs or assumptions) are essential to supporting these most pressing change initiatives?
7. Name 1 behavior you are willing to change to foster synergy and resilience (Chapters 12-14).
I have used these questions with my clients to help them gain more focus on what's important, eliminate what is not important, and align their teams towards a common goal. I trust you may benefit from them as well.
Thank you, Daryl, for your dedication to helping leaders in highly volatile times.
Lisa Nirell
www.energizegrowth.com
 Immediately applicable tools for dealing with change
In part because author Daryl R. Conner applies common sense ideas, and in part because his ideas have spread throughout corporate culture, some aspects of this book may seem familiar. Conner would probably count that as a positive development, because one of his core premises is that change is exhausting and, therefore, you should try to make changes as palatable as possible to the people they will affect. Thomas Edison did this by making the first electric lights resemble the already-familiar gas fixtures. But even if you've heard all of this before, don't underestimate the book's usefulness. Conner's theories may not surprise you, but he offers many immediately applicable tools for dealing with change, and he uses clear, expressive language to do so. Because you'll learn several useful tips if you read even a few pages, we recommend this book to anyone guiding any kind of organization - family, nonprofit, business or school - through change.
An excellent book for anyone involved in major change initiatives
An excellent job of putting all of the issues, concerns, and challenges regarding change into perspective --- and to provide a model for addressing changes. The approach presented in this book will be very useful to me in my work as a consultant helping corporations through major re-engineering and system upgrade projects. Daryl Conner shows how broadly changes affects people at all levels, and provides a practical model for individuals facing change, that can help them work through it in constructive ways.
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