Change Management Leadership

So many women hit their 40s or 50s and realize: It's time for a career change. Maybe you're yearning to try something new, or you're sensing that layoffs are coming and you need a backup plan. Perhaps you paused or downsized your career to raise children, and you're ready to rejoin the workforce. How do you reboot, relaunch, return to, or reinvent a career at age 40? Or 50? Or 60? And how can you create a career and life that will provide you with purpose and financial security for years to come?

Change the Box: A Guide to Dream, Incubate, and Scale Your Innovations by John Spencer-Taylor reveals powerful strategies to transform bold ideas into thriving businesses. Drawing from his experience with BrainGu, Spencer-Taylor shares practical advice on balancing creativity with commercial viability. The book also introduces the "Change the Box" mantra, emphasizing small, impactful changes that drive significant results.

ATTENTION STUDENTS: If you need to write a paper on risk management, then this is the perfect reference. It's simple, easy to understand, and right to the point. Risk management is an appealing concept due to the uncertainty that exists in many organizations. It is more important today than it ever was in the past, and that importance appears to be growing. Based on its popularity, risk management is taking center stage in the thought processes of leaders all over the world. This book focuses on risk management in organizations. It introduces six basic steps for development and ...

Transformation is hard. And most efforts fail. After thirty-five years of leading transformation efforts with multiple organizations and teams, Mamie Jones has developed a proven playbook for anyone who wants to drive dramatic change and produce extraordinary results. It’s time to take your organization or team to the next level through learning how to: Adjust your own mindset and approach to leadership so you can transform the mindset of others.

The "Step Up, Step Back" approach suggests leaders need to step up and do more than they typically do in the early stages of the change - in specific ways and at specific times; and then step back and do less than they typically do in the later stages of the change - again, in specific ways, at specific times. The result is not only change that sticks, but empowered, motivated managers who can get on with delivering change, without needing ongoing input or cover from leaders.

In Repeatability, Chris Zook and James Allen - leaders of Bain & Company’s influential Strategy practice - warn that complexity is a silent killer of profitable growth. Successful companies endure by maintaining simplicity at their core. They don’t stray from, or regularly discard, their business model in pursuit of radical renovation. Instead, they build a “repeatable business model” that produces continuous improvement and allows them to rapidly adapt to change without succumbing to complexity.

Companies everywhere face two major challenges today: getting noticed and getting paid. To confront these obstacles, Bharat Anand examines a range of businesses around the world, from The New York Times to The Economist, from Chinese Internet giant Tencent to Scandinavian digital trailblazer Schibsted, and from talent management to the future of education.

Embracing Change: Management Strategies for New Business Leaders Change is inevitable in business, but thriving in the face of it is what sets great leaders apart. In Embracing Change: Management Strategies for New Business Leaders, you’ll discover the tools, strategies, and mindset shifts needed to navigate the complexities of modern leadership with confidence and clarity. Whether you’re stepping into a leadership role for the first time or looking to refine your management skills, this book is your essential guide to leading through change, inspiring teams, and driving success in ...

“Justin and Rudy’s Excellent IT Adventure” is a fun and exciting tale that weaves principles of IT and IT Service Management into a fictional story; allowing the reader to better understand basic IT processes and functions within a fictional storyline.

All too often, the challenges we face seem overwhelming. Where do we start? What if we fail? But best-selling author John Izzo argues that almost every problem, from personal difficulties and business challenges to social issues, can be solved if all of us look to ourselves to create change rather than looking to others. And with the research to prove it, Izzo shows that by seeing ourselves as the locus of control rather than the victims of change, we are happier, less stressed, and more powerful.

Today's ways of working are not working - even for professionals in "good" jobs. Responding to global competition and pressure from financial markets, companies are asking employees to do more with less, even as new technologies normalize 24/7 job expectations. In Overload, Erin Kelly and Phyllis Moen document how this new intensification of work creates chronic stress, leading to burnout, attrition, and underperformance. "Flexible" work policies and corporate lip service about "work-life balance" don't come close to fixing the problem.

Most leadership development books teach listeners "how to lead." But for acclaimed leadership coach and consultant Diane Rogers, that's not enough. In her debut book, Leading hArtfully: The Art of Leading Through Your Heart to Discover the Best in Others, Diane shines a light on what's missing from a leadership strategy that draws upon a conventional authoritarian "leader-as-expert" focus and offers the distinct opportunity to leverage the strengths and magnificence within your employees and colleagues.

"As a transformation guru, Nick Jankel's ideas are as relevant to the newest startup as they are to the oldest public institution." Head of White House Office Of Social Innovation; Special Advisor to President Obama A tour de force that brings together, in one book, the essential science, wisdom, and tools to become a truly transformational leader—from one of the world’s preeminent theorists and practitioners of transformational leadership. Whether you are a leader in a bold multinational, an ambitious start-up, a purposeful social enterprise, a determined government department, ...

The Catalyst Leader is the ultimate guide to get there. After thirteen years of gathering, influencing, and inspiring hundreds of thousands of young leaders through cutting-edge experiential events, conferences, and resources, Brad Lomenick understands leadership and the next generation. The Catalyst Leader provides practical help for all leaders at any stage of their leadership journey, ultimately defining what it means to be a Catalyst in this generation, and inspiring us all to be true change makers wherever we lead.

Thriving in Disruption: Agile Organizations, Collective Leadership, and New Work is a timely, candid, and refreshing guide towards an in-depth and practical understanding of human-centric agile organizations. Embedded in behavioral science, it encourages the reader to further explore and challenge conventional definitions and assumptions in management theory to rethink approaches. It includes practical suggestions on how to embark on creating an agile organization through collective leadership, suggesting that this journey is imperative to successfully navigate the choppy waters of the era ...

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As complexities, ambiguity, and disintegration have increased across organizations in the “age of digital transformation” and continuous innovation, Dr. Ichak Adizes’ Mastering Change is an oasis of systematic approaches to turn problems into opportunities for growth and elevate your ability to manage change as effectively as possible. Make better decisions, and implement more efficiently, as Dr. Adizes’ models for change management will adeptly bring you into tighter alignment with the keys to harnessing your organization’s true potential.

Change Is Good, You Go First by Tom Feltenstien and Mac Anderson is not your typical business book on implementing change. The 21 stories will inspire you and your team to stop conducting business as usual! This creative audiobook will help you embrace change and realize change can be good!

Generating and executing great ideas is the key to staying ahead in a rapidly changing world. It seems so basic. Why is it so hard to actually get right? According to innovation expert Phil McKinney, the real problem is that we're teaching people to ask the wrong questions about their businesses - or none at all. There has to be a better way. In Beyond the Obvious, McKinney will help you use his proven FIRE (Focus, Ideation, Rank, Execution) Method to dig deeper and get back to asking the right questions - the ones all companies must ask to survive.

Here’s how to make purposeful system change happen! The world faces a multitude of crises that demand transformative changes in how we live and do business. Yet a core question is...how to make purposeful transformation happen? Catalyzing Transformation shows the way through innovative organizing processes that anyone can use to catalyze purposeful whole system transformational change for a better world.