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   Dealing With Change

  

Recommended Books

 

Below is a brief description of the books, click above for details on reviews and purchasing:   

  1. Who Moved My Cheese? An Amazing Way to Deal with Change in Your Work and in Your Life

A humorous and entertaining parable on the importance of change and knowing when to make it happen.  Recommended for people of all ages and backgrounds.

  1. Change Management Excellence: Using the Four Intelligences for Successful Organizational Change

Actionable guidance for innovative organizations on how to navigate change by focusing on its essential elements.  Recommended for managers and consultants.

  1. Coaching for Change: Practical Strategies for Transforming Performance

How to conduct coaching during a change program.  Recommended for coaches and front line/mid-level leadership.

  1. Managing Change and Transition

A guide on how to manage voluntary and involuntary improvement changes within organizations. Recommended for managers at all levels.

  1. Leading Change

This highly acclaimed book teaches you how to lead other into change, not just manage the change situation you are in.  Recommended for managers at all levels.

  1. Taking Charge Of Change: Ten Principles For Managing People And Performance

A ten step guide for creating and managing change. Provides diagnostic tools. Recommended for all leaders.

  1. Our Iceberg Is Melting: Changing and Succeeding Under Any Conditions

A light, quick read of a fictional story about penguins that face the crisis of global warming.  A good springboard for group discussions.  Recommended for everyone.

  1. Thriving through Change  

A six step model to assist international organizations manage global change.  It includes practical advice for leaders and an employee survival guide.  Recommended for everyone.

  1.  Force For Change: How Leadership Differs from Management 

A researched based perspective on leadership vs. management.  How to optimize relationships and effectiveness.  Recommended for anyone in or on a management track.                                                                         

Recommend Movies/TV showsNetflix, Inc.

Heroes (NBC) 

Heroes is a show about people all over the world discovering that they have superpowers and trying to deal with how this change affects their lives.  As viewers discover the nature of each hero's powers, the heroes, themselves, discover what having superpowers mean and their choice in how they will make a change in the world.  Both season one and two are now available on DVD.

 

The Apprentice (NBC)

The Apprentice is the ultimate, sixteen-week job interview, where eighteen individuals compete in a series of rigorous business tasks that require street smarts and intelligence.  They need to show the boss, Donald Trump, that they are the best candidate for his companies. The contenders must be prepared to handle team challenges by managing the change-ups thrown at them, as well as seeing the change they need to make in themselves. The first complete season is now available on DVD.

 

      Recommended Web links

 

Articles on managing change within an organization.  

 

Thirteen tips for managing change within an educational system.  The tips are beneficial for leadership in any organization.

 

Borrow videos on numerous change management topics from the state North Carolina Library.

 

 
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