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Managing Transitions: Making the Most of Change
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Binding: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 658.406
EAN: 9780738208244
Edition: 2nd
ISBN: 0738208248
Label: Da Capo Press
Manufacturer: Da Capo Press
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 144
Publication Date: 2003-05
Publisher: Da Capo Press
Release Date: May 27, 2003
Studio: Da Capo Press
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Editorial Review:
The business world is a place of constant change, with stories of corporate mergers, layoffs, bankruptcy, and restructuring hitting the news every day. Yet as veteran consultant William Bridges maintains, the situational changes are not as difficult for companies to make as the psychological transitions. In the best-selling Managing Transitions, Bridges provides a clear understanding of what change does to employees and what employees in transition can do to an organization. Directed at managers and employees in today's corporations, Bridges shows how to minimize the distress and disruptions caused by change. Managing Transitions addresses the fact that it is people who have to carry out the change. When the book was originally published a decade ago, Bridges was the first to provide any real sense of the emotional impact of change and what can be done to keep it from disrupting the entire organization. With new information and commentary on layoffs, corporate suspicion, and the increasing tumult in the business world, Managing Transitions remains the definitive guide to dealing with change.
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Rating:  - The best model of change yet!
In Managing Transitions, William Bridges sets out to help managers and others who want to introduce change - be it a total organisational restructure or simply trying to get people to do things differently.
The book is very practical - both easy to read and to apply the key concepts. Divided into four parts, Bridges takes the reader through how to understand just what change is, how it affects us, and most importantly, how to lead change. The key concept of leading change in this ... Read More
Rating: - Transition starts with an ending..
It isn't the fact of change that causes organizational grief, it is managing the psychological transition between the old and the new.
In my experience, most organizations do not handle this phase well. In their haste to move on, leaders and managers often forget the very real investment individuals have made in the past, Even when the need for change is understood and appreciated, people still require a plan to move ahead.
Dr Bridges has been working in this field for ... Read More
Rating: - Fantastic resource
Can't recommend highly enough. Very easy to read, useful examples. While many transitions are "negative" (factory closing, layoffs), the principles are very applicable to "positive changes" (adding staff, new facilities and systems, etc.). I run a small organization and it was incredibly helpful to me.
Rating:  - Excellent book
Change and transition are an important issue in our professional lives, going trough the book allowed me to realize the diferent stages and process involved and there for be in a better position the next challenge.
the use of examples en refrences is very well managed, language is easy
Rating: - High rating for a textbook, but it deserves it.
I have had several textbooks in Management between an Undergraduate, Graduate and Business itself. This was no different in that I expected the same old stuff, but was very pleasantly surprised at the authors candor about our perceptions of business practices. It didn't mince words on several tactics used by management and explained why so much doesn't work. It got my attention and I continued my reading with far more interest. There really isn't anything more complimentary I can say than I intend ... Read More
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