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Managing Transitions

On sale

10th August 2017

Price: £18.99

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Selected: Paperback / ISBN-13: 9781473664500

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The bestselling guide to managing organisational change, with over 650,000 copies sold, is now revised and updated for today’s rapidly changing workplace where change is a constant.

In a landscape of big mergers, global teams and evolving technology, it’s more important than ever for employees and managers to be adaptable to change. When restructuring hits the workplace, the actual situational shifts are often not as hard to work through as the psychological components that accompany them. Successful organisational change takes place when employees have a clear purpose, a plan for, and a part to play in their changing surroundings.

For 25 years, Managing Transitions has been the go-to resource for managers to navigate tumultuous times. Now, this essential book has been updated to address new trends and challenges in today’s work cultures, including generational differences, inclusivity, cross-functional teams, remote and work-from-home colleagues, and more.

It includes a new foreword by Patrick Lencioni, best-selling author of The Five Dysfunctions of a Team.

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Reviews

Marshall Goldsmith, executive coach, business educator, and New York Times best-selling author, ranked top leadership thinker in the world by Thinkers50
Managing Transitions was timely when it first appeared 25 years ago. It is even more relevant now, at a time of unprecedented change and transition. The Bridges' deep understanding of how we experience the destabilising forces of change - and their well-tested strategies for helping people through it - are more important than ever.
Jim Kouzes, coauthor of the best-selling 'The Leadership Challenge'
A very wise book by a very wise man. This new edition is a celebration of William Bridges' original insights and practical guidance. With incisive contemporary cases and immediately useful applications, Susan Bridges masterfully reintroduces his exceptional work to a new generation.
Beverly Kaye, founder, Career Systems International; coauthor, 'Love 'Em or Lose 'Em'
Pick up any business book today and you will find words about unending change. What better guide for this unrelenting change than someone who has spent decades studying and reporting on how to survive it? If you need that guide - grab this book! William and Susan Bridges provide a road map to get through the most difficult work and life passages.
Sally Helgesen, author, 'The Female Vision' and 'Thriving in 24/7'
This richly updated new edition of the insightful Managing Transitions, filled with fresh and compelling examples, will be indispensable for leaders trying to guide their organizations through a period of unsettling change by managing the pain and uncertainty of the neutral zone. A timely update to a timeless book.
John Alexander, president, Leadership Horizons and former president and CEO of the Center for Creative Leadership
Managing change is a way of life in today's organisations, yet too often it's handled poorly. That's why Managing Transitions has become the essential guide on how to do it right. This new, revised edition deftly guides the reader through the organisational change process from start to finish, offering practical advice grounded in the authors' vast experience working with every size and type of organisation. This book is must reading for every leader, manager, and employee undergoing a change process. Come to think of it, doesn't that include just about everyone?
Walter McFarland, coauthor of 'Choosing Change' and board chair emeritus for the Association for Talent
The most important idea I have encountered about organizational change is this: great change requires human transition. Decades of experience have proven that no magic set of steps, no financial incentive, no clever argument, and no threat can guarantee that a workforce will embrace change. People need real help in psychologically transitioning to a new situation--and that help is available here. In this fourth edition of Managing Transitions, William and Susan Bridges further expand their proven approach for helping people and organizations embrace real change.
Gabrielle Toledano, EVP and chief talent officer, Electronic Arts, Inc.
Managing Transitions is an essential guide for leaders and Chief People Officers who are navigating transitions and change within any organisation. It is also a handbook in life for dealing with endings, new beginnings, and the disruptive 'neutral zone' in between. This book provides a pathway to human and authentic leadership and a way to gracefully navigate through the changes we all face in life.
B. Kim Barnes, CEO, Barnes & Conti Associates; author, 'Exercising Influence'
Susan Bridges has done something generous, courageous, and brilliant with her updating of this classic and treasured book by Bill Bridges. In a collaborative process with the ideas of her late husband and business partner, she has made the language, concepts, and examples fresh again and available to a new audience. Bill's ideas have been fundamental to my own practice, and now they will inspire a new generation of leaders and change-makers to be wise, humane, and strategic, as they move their complex organisations through and increasingly challenging set of realities.
Tony Bingham, president and CEO for the Association for Talent Development
Change is constant in today's global business environment, and yet change management continues to be a challenge for most organisations. That's why Managing Transitions remains an important book; it identifies the critically important role that understanding the human size of transition plays in effective change management. This updated edition is a must-read for anyone who wants to lead change successfully.