 Individual Performance 4: Initiate
change
Identify opportunities for action as they arise and move
forward without being asked to do so
Take initiative to bring about change
Accept responsibility for decisions, actions and errors as
situations require
On-the-Job
Survey peers and client managers for a candid assessment of
your initiative and willingness to change Take responsibility for an urgent project that
will test your problem-solving and decision-making skills Take responsibility for a
problem or project which requires convincing others that change is necessary Take
responsibility for changing the behavior of a difficult team member
Education and Training
- Organizational Change Skills for HR Managers (Cornell
University, 607-255-8994, 6 days, $3900)
- Leading and Managing Change (Stanford University,
650-723-3341, 2 weeks, $10,000)
- Leading Change (University of Southern California,
213-740-9814, 1 day, $575)
- Managing Organizational and Individual Change (University of
Virginia, 804-924-3000, 4 days, $3000)
- Leading Organizational Change (The Wharton School,
215-898-1776, 1 week, $4950)
- Effecting Change (Center for Creative Leadership,
919-545-2810)
- Planning Strategies (American Management Association,
518-891-1500, CD ROM, $265)
Reading
- Managing Change (Harvard Business Review Reprint Series
#49519, 617-496-1449)
- David A. Nadler, et at., Discontinuous Change: Leading
Organizational Transformation (Jossey-Bass, 1995)
- Peter Block, Flawless Consulting (Pfeiffer & Co., 1981)
- Charles Boyd, Individual Commitment and Organizational
Change (Quorum Books, 1992)
- James Champy and Nitia Nohria, Fast Forward: The Best Ideas
on Managing Business Change (Harvard Business Review Books, 1996)
- H.B. Karp, The Change Leader (Pfeiffer & Co., 1995)
- James M. Kouzes and Barry Z Posner, The Leadership
Challenge: How to Get Extraordinary Things Done in Organizations (Jossey-Bass, 1987)
- Robert H. Miles, Leading Corporate Transformation
(Jossey-Bass, 1987)
- Edwin C. Nevis, et al., Intentional Revolutions: A
Seven-Point Strategy for Transforming Organizations (Jossey-Bass, 1996)
- David M. Noer, Breaking Free: A Prescription for Personal
and Organizational Change (Jossey-Bass, 1996)
- James O'Toole, Leading Change: Overcoming the Ideology of
Comfort and the Tyranny of Custom (Jossey-Bass, 1995)
- Michael L. Tushman and Charles A. O'Reilly, Winning through
Innovation: A Practical Guide to Leading Organizational Change and Renewal (Harvard
Business School Press, 1997)
- Price Waterhouse Change Team, Better Change: Best Practices
for Transforming Your Organization (Irwin, 1995)
- Price Waterhouse Change Team, Paradox Principles (Irwin,
1995)
- Robert E. Quinn, Deep Change: Discovering the Leader Within
(Jossey-Bass, 1996)
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