Making Sense of Change Management: A Complete Guide to the Models, Tools and Techniques of Organizational Change
March 11th, 2008
Making Sense of Change Management: A Complete Guide to the Models, Tools and Techniques of Organizational Change
Customer Review: Spot on for what it is trying to be
As one would hope from authors writing about change management, this book is well thought out and executed.
It’s not trying to be a massive, fully comprehensive tome on everything and anything to do with change management. Rather, it offers up some interesting theory and background on change, then follows it up with some practical chapters which are useful in many ways.
Even if you eschew the theory, it’s well worth the purchase price. However, the theory is interesting reading in its own right, and will assist you to inform your ideas about change and how it can be deal with.
Customer Review: Nothing as practical as good theory
I think this text is a fine attempt at bringing together a huge subject area in a readable format. The mix of theory from many parts of management thinking and discussion on application make it more than just an academic text book. Change is hard to implement, but sound theory well applied will be successful in most cases. This text provides a great grounding in both. Recommended for thoughtful change managers, not the ones who shoot first and aim later.
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This book is just what it ought to be. Readable, addresses the problems you need to know, easy to follow, short and cheap. If you want to be an expert smith, read Jim Hrisoulas as well. If you care about the history of other traditions, then read Leon Kapp. If you just want to start making your own high quality knives, even if you’re not used to metalworking, then start with this book. The authors do love their belt grinder ! Even though we’re not all manufacturing on a commercial scale, their workshop techniques are described well enough for any of us; from one-offs to shops. The production quality could be better. Some of the photos have a “homely” quality that reminds us of how difficult specialist book production could be before cheap computer-publishing. Maybe a discerning publisher will realise just how good a book this could be with a little more polish. That’s nit-picking though
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