Book description
"With this extensively upgraded second edition, Dean Anderson and
Linda Ackerman Anderson solidify their status as the leading authorities
on change leadership and organizational transformation. This is without
question the most comprehensive approach for leaders who are serious
about making change a strategic discipline."
-Jim Kouzes
, Author, The Leadership Challenge
and The Truth About Leadership
A comprehensive look at what it really takes to lead transformation
successfully, written by two of the "masters of the craft."
The author's best-selling first edition has been significantly updated
to deliver critical insights about how leaders can achieve
breakthrough results from transformational change, even in these
challenging times. The book introduces conscious change leadership and
provides insights about the critical human and change process dynamics
that leaders must be aware of in order to succeed, and reveals why
most leaders do not see these dynamics. Most importantly, it
highlights the shift in worldview leaders must make to deliver greater success.
The book outlines the author's highly successful
"multi-dimensional, process approach" to transformation,
addressing change at the organizational, team, relational, and
personal levels. It thoroughly addresses leadership mindset and
behavioral modeling, culture change, and large systems
implementations, providing best practices developed over three decades
of successful consulting to Fortune 500 executives. Written for
executives and managers, OD consultants, change managers, project
managers, and change consultants, this must read book provides the
foundation for successful change leadership and consulting.
- Based on thirty years of action research with Fortune 500
companies, government agencies, the military, and large non-profit
global organizations
- Provides worksheets, tools, case examples, and assessments that
you can immediately apply to all types of change efforts
- Contrasts two vastly different leadership approaches to change,
and reveals why only one works
- Provides solutions for turning employee resistance into commitment
- Outlines the common mistakes in change and how you can avoid them
- Reveals the differences between transformation and other types
of change so you can build strategies that really get results
Beyond Change Management advances the field of change
leadership, and takes the concept of managing change in organizations
to a whole new level. It is a must read for anyone wanting to stay
abreast of advancements in the field.
Together with its companion volume, The Change Leader's Roadmap:
How to Navigate Your Organization's Transformation, these books
can be used as texts in corporate or graduate school training programs
and courses.
DEAN ANDERSON is co-founder and president of Being
First, a change leadership development and transformational change
consulting firm. He is a powerful speaker, writer, coach, consultant
and master trainer. Anderson's client list includes Fortune 1000
companies such as Microsoft Corporation, PeaceHealth, Servus Credit
Union, Canadian Park Service, Detroit Edison, DTE Energy, Exxon,
Cincinnati Gas and Electric, City of Calgary, The Clorox Company,
Holiday Inns, United Way of America, Home Savings of America, Levis
Strauss, People's Gas, and RR Donnelley and Sons. He co-authored with
Linda Ackerman Anderson of Beyond Change Management and
Change Leader's Roadmap. He has published over 50 articles
and has been featured in Business Week, and regularly publishes
in Warren Bennis's Leadership Excellence periodical.
LINDA ACKERMAN ANDERSON is a co-founder and vice-president of
Being First. She specializes in planning for and facilitating
transformational change in Fortune 1000 businesses and the military.
Linda has spoken about her work on conscious transformation at
national and international conferences, and is known as a thought
leader and inspiring model of her message. During the past 25 years,
her practice has focused on strategy development for major
organizational change using Being First's renown nine-phase Change
Leader's Roadmap.
