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Making Sense of Change Management
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Making Sense of Change Management

A Complete Guide to the Models, Tools & Techniques of Organizational Change

Mike Green and Esther Cameron
Kogan Page, 2004

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Authors Esther Cameron and Mike Green provide a short, reasonably accessible introduction to the nature of change and the methods and techniques for managing it. The introductory chapters summarize the most important points from the literature on change and change management, with a brief detour to discuss the development of psychology during the latter half of the twentieth century. Then, the authors dig right into the details of team building, team management and other nuts-and-bolts issues in organizational adaptation, giving readers enough information to hold their own in a discussion of the subject. getAbstract.com recommends this to anyone charged with managing organizational change, or even surviving it. The implicit promise of the title is that the authors will help readers make sense of change management. They keep that promise.

Take-Aways

  • Change is inevitable and needs careful management.
  • Organizations can be characterized with four metaphors: the machine, the organism, the polis and the flux. Each suggests a different way of thinking about change.
  • Although heroic leaders are impressive and memorable, they may be obsolete.

About the Authors

Esther Cameron and Mike Green help organizations and executives manage and lead change. Green teaches at Henley Management College and Cameron has lectured on change management for the University of Bristol for the past ten years. She is the author of Facilitation Skills Made Easy.

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