Leading Change

Announcing a change programme is straightforward; getting an organisation to work differently afterwards is the part that fails. Leading Change addresses that second problem, looking at how leaders prepare an organisation for a shift, build support well beyond the senior team, and hold a new way of working in place long enough for it to become ordinary. The material belongs to the management literature on transformation, resistance and culture, and is written for people running the process rather than commenting on it. Readers after a general theory of leadership will find something narrower and considerably more practical. A closer look: • Concerned with organisational change, not leadership in general • Addresses resistance, momentum and follow-through • Written for managers responsible for a change process • Sits alongside standard business school reading on transformation Relevant to executives, team leaders and management students, available from Boipoka.