Editorial Review:
This classic, newly updated, is an indispensable source for anyone–from mid-level managers to CEOs–who must execute key business initiatives quickly and effectively. Once groundbreaking and now time-honored, Managing at the Speed of Change has helped countless business leaders learn how to orchestrate transitions vital to their organizations’ success. Rather than focusing on what to change, this book’s aim is far more valuable: It shows readers how to change.
Daryl R. Conner, founder and chairman of the consulting firm Conner Partners, is a leading expert on change management. He has served as “change doctor” for clients that include non-profit enterprises, government agencies and administrations, and Fortune 500 companies in an array of industries such as Abbott Laboratories, PepsiCo, American Express, Catholic Healthcare West, JPMorgan Chase, and the U.S. Navy.
Based on Conner’s long-term research and his decades of consulting experience, Managing at the Speed of Change uses simple, easy-to-understand language and elegant visuals to explore the dynamics of change, and in doing so, teaches readers
• why major change is difficult to assimilate
• what distinguishes resilient individuals from those who suffer future shock
• how and why resistance forms
• how people become committed to change
• why organizational culture is so important to the success of change
• the roles most central to change in organizational settings
• why powerful teamwork is at the heart of achieving change objectives, and how to foster it
In this pioneering book, updated for the twenty-first century, Conner demonstrates how both individuals and organizations can develop the capacity not only to endure change but to thrive on it.
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Customer Reviews
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Managing at the Speed of Change  2008-01-07
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 2007-07-13
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  2006-07-24
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 2006-03-10
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.
A Real Guru Explains the Dynamics of Change 2006-02-19
Daryl Conner probably knows more about the phenomenon of change in organizations than aybody in the world. This is his first major book on the subject, and it's a good one.
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