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Leading Change 7: Promote needed change

Foster innovation and a mindset-culture to achieve business change

Build on diversity, benchmarking, customer focus, analogies, and stretch performance targets to stimulate "out-of-the-box" ideas for change to support the business strategy

On-the-Job

Participate in a task force in an unfamiliar area to gain experience in thinking in new ways Think of ten new ideas for your area and track your ability to implement them and what was successful and why Read business journals and network with other companies to find out what innovative ideas are being implemented and their effect on company culture

Education and Training

  • Building Leadership Skills: Strategies to Win in the Upcoming Business Revolution (Cornell University - New York City, 212-340-2863, 2 days, $745)
  • Cornell University (607-255-1504)
       ---Organizational Change Skills for Human Resource Manager, 1 week, $4200
       ---Leading Strategic Change: Tools and Techniques, 2 days
  • Promoting Innovation and Creativity (Harvard University, 617-239-1111, 2 days, $1950)
  • Sacred Cows Make the Best Burgers: Paradigm-Busting Strategies for Developing Change-Ready People and Organizations (Stanford University, 415-381-9363, Video, $95)
  • Leading Change: Creating Transformational Competencies (University of Michigan, 313-763-1000, 1 week, $4850. Also offered in Hong Kong, $3900)
  • Managing Organizational and Individual Change (University of Virginia, 804-924-3000, 4 days, $4000)
  • Designing Culture Change (The Human Resource Planning Society, 212-490-6387, 2 days, $1095
  • NTL Institute (703-548-1500)
       ---Facilitating and Managing Complex System Change, 1 week, $1695
       ---Power to Change Whole Systems: The New Organization Challenge, 1 week, $1600
       ---Into the Worlds of Change: A Transcultural Journey, 3 days, $1200
  • Human Resource Planning Society (212-490-6387)
       ---Leading Strategic Change: Tools and Techniques, 2 days, $1095
       ---Designing Culture Change, 2 days, $1095
       ---Leading Culture Change, 2 days, $1095
  • Effecting Change (Center for Creative Leadership, 910-545-2810, 3 days, $2300)
  • Consultant as Change Agent (Linkage, Inc., 781-862-3157, 2 days, $1095)
  • Conference: Adapting Organizations for Constant Change (Enterprise Reengineering, 703-761-0646, 3 days, $1050)
  • American Management Association (518-891-1500)
       ---How to Be an Effective Facilitator, Self-Study Course, $88
       ---Communicating with Diplomacy and Tact, 2 days, $479
       ---Motivating Others: Bringing Out the Best in People, 3 days, $1475
  • Be Prepared to Lead (Toastmasters International, 800-989-8273, Video with Study Guide, $90)
  • The Conference Board (212-339-0345)
       ---Corporate Communication Conference: Formulating Effective Communication Strategies, 2 days, $1425
       ---Managing Change Conference: Capturing Opportunities in the New Economy, 2 days, $1425

Reading

  • A Blueprint for Managing Change (The Conference Board, Report No. 1149, 1996, 212-339-0345)
  • Negotiating Corporate Change (Harvard Business Review Reprint Series #49533, 617-496-1449)
  • Lance A. Berger and Martin Sikora, The Change Management Handbook (Irwin, 1993)
  • George Binney and Colin Williams, Leaning into the Future (Nicholas Brealey, 1995)
  • James Champy and Nitia Nohria, Fast Forward: The Best Ideas on Managing Business Change (Harvard Business Review Books, 1996)
  • Jay Conger, Gretchen Spreitzer & Edward Lawler, The Leader's Change Handbook: An Essential Guide to Setting Direction & Taking Action (Jossey-Bass/Pfeiffer, 1999)
  • William R. Daniels and John G. Mathers, Change-Able Organization: Key Management Practices for Speed and Flexibility (Act Publishing, 1997)
  • Carol K. Gorman, Managing for Commitment (Crisp Publications, 800-442-7477)
  • Donald C. Hambrick, David A Nadler and Michael L. Tushman (eds.), Navigating Change: How CEOs, Top Teams and Boards Steer Transformation (Harvard Business School Press, 1997)
  • Peggy Holman and Tom Devane (eds.), The Change Handbook: Group Methods for Shaping the Future (Berrett-Koehler, 1999)
  • Robert W. Jacobs, Real Time Strategic Change (Berrett-Koehler, 1994)
  • A, Glenn Kiser, Masterful Facilitation: Becoming a Catalyst for Meaningful Change (AMACOM, 1998)
  • John P. Kotter, Leading Change (Harvard Business School Press, 1996)
  • Markos Kounalakis et al., Beyond Spin: The Power of Strategic Corporate Journalism (Jossey-Bass, 1999)
  • Susan S. Kuczmarski and Thomas B. Kuczmarski, Values-Based Leadership: Rebuilding Employee Commitment, Performance and Productivity (Prentice-Hall, 1994)
  • Rob LeBow and William L. Simon, Lasting Change: The Shared Values Process That Makes Companies Great (ITP, l997)
  • John Macdonald, Calling a Halt to Mindless Change (AMACOM, 1998)
  • Robert H. Miles, Leading Corporation Transformation (Jossey-Bass, 1997)
  • Edwin C. Nevis, Joan Lancourt and Helen G. Vassallo, Intentional Revolutions (Brace-Park Press, 1997)
  • Roger A. Ritvo, Anne H. Litwin and Lee Butler, Managing in an Age of Change (Irwin, 1994)
  • Mike Robson with Claran Beary, Facilitating (Ashgate Publishing, 1995)
  • Craig Eric Schneier, Managing Strategic and Cultural Change in Organizations (Harvard Business School Press, 1995)
  • Peter Senge, et al., The Dance of Change: The Challenges to Sustaining Momentum in a Learning Organization (Currency/Doubleday, 1999)
  • Michael Tushman and Charles O'Reilly, Winning through Innovation: A Practical Guide to Leading Organizational Change and Renewal (Harvard Business School Press, 1997)
  • Jerry Wind and Jeremy Main, Driving Change: How the Best Companies Are Preparing for the 21st Century (Free Press, 1998)
  • Harry Woodward, Navigating through Change (Irwin, 1994)

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