Better Change: Best Practices for Transforming Your Organization [Hardcover]

Price Waterhouse Change Integration Team (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: July 1, 1994

The most important challenge in corporate America today is managing change successfully. Better Change is about doing just that with proven method, with intelligence, with sensitivity. Written for business leaders who understand that their company's prosperity depends on successful transformation, Better Change offers the insight and experience of some of the world's outstanding thought leaders on change: The Price Waterhouse Change Integration Team. Large-scale change management is a special discipline, there are too many interacting factors, too many foxholes to approach it in the spirit of "business as usual." Before setting out on a bold change program, or before attempting to pull a straying change program back on course, you will serve your cause well by absorbing the message of Better Change. A guide for managers from the very first stage of envisioning necessary changes to the nitty-gritty of instituting them as smoothly as possible, Better Change has a keen sense for the corporation as a community of concerned individuals and interest groups, each with a stake and agenda. Based on the Price Waterhouse Change Integration Team's experiences with hundreds of clients, Better Change takes you into the real texture and "feel" of change projects. This is the first four-color toolkit for change with specific, practical advice on every page, supported by case studies and checklist. Beginning with The 15 Guiding Principles that govern virtually all successful change programs, Better Change offers step-by-step instructions to help corporate leaders navigate the rough water between a shaky status quo and future success, including how to effectively "sell" the case for change to seniormanagement and diversified stakeholders; clearly communicate the new vision to all levels of employees; empower employees to their fullest potential in ways that make business sense; revise the performance measures that guide and motivate everyone, from the top of the house to the lo

Product Details

• Hardcover: 190 pages
• Publisher: Irwin Professional Publishing (July 1, 1994)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0786303425
• ISBN-13: 978-0786303427
• Product Dimensions: 9.2 x 7.4 x 0.9 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.3 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (4 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,741,444 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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7 of 7 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Excellent! Practical advice, broad scope., February 2, 1999

By A Customer

This review is from: Better Change: Best Practices for Transforming Your Organization (Hardcover)

If you're trying to figure out why a project isn't going well, this book just may solve your problem. It takes you through the basics of change mangement, and makes you aware of just what you're dealing with. Good, practical advice that made me wear out a highlighter. When I showed it to other IS people on our Oracle software implementation project, they said "that's us"!!! We didn't realize we were in the middle of a change project - now we can try to take a step back and regroup.

5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Outstanding book to help your organization achieve change, August 30, 1999

By A Customer

This review is from: Better Change: Best Practices for Transforming Your Organization (Hardcover)

I thoroughly enjoyed this book. Easy to read and it truly made sense. We are just beginning an effort to change our organization and this book has helped us plot our course. I am encouraged that this book will help us achieve positive change for our company and employees.

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Based on real experience,not just theories!, December 17, 2002

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Diana Mekelburg "tgwha" (Portland, OR USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Better Change: Best Practices for Transforming Your Organization (Hardcover)

The list of consequences "when bad things happen to good projects" or What-NOT-To-Do is worth the price of the book. I wish I had read this book before starting my 6+ years as a consultant helping organizations to improve. This book presents most of the lessons that I've learned during those years and gives quite a few additional ideas on organization change.

Don't let the garish cover art distract you. This is a solidly good book, which I regularly recommend to my clients. Of course, I can't vouch for the Price Waterhouse consulting group's ability to get clients to change successfully or whether they even follow their own advice. I just know that I do apply the best ideas in this book (plus some of my own) in my consulting practice.