Delivers 22 specific guidelines on how to manage your part of the organization for high-velocity culture change. You'll also learn how you can avoid the management traps that cause most efforts to fail. This handbook will prepare you and your management staff for the rigors of the agonizing process that is culture change. It will also prove how and why the pain is well worth the cost. If your management staff is going to achieve a dramatic culture shift in record time, High-Velocity Culture Change is a must-read for every player on your team.
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Related books by this author include: Culture Shift; Shaping Corporate Culture; Firing Up Commitment During Organizational Change; MindShift.
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Price Pritchett is Chairman of Pritchett, LLC, a Dallas-based consulting, training and publishing firm. For 30 years he has been advising CEOs, presidents, and other senior executives on a wide range of strategic matters related to merger integration and major organizational change.
Price holds a B.A. and M.A. in English and a Ph.D. in psychology, and is recognized internationally as a leading authority on the dynamics of change in the workplace. His 26 books and handbooks have sold over 10 million copies, making him one of the best-selling business authors in the U.S.
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18 of 18 people found the following review helpful:
1.0 out of 5 stars
Exactly what's wrong with modern management,
This review is from: High Velocity Culture Change: A Handbook for Managers (Paperback)
This is perhaps the worst example I have encountered of terrible advice, wrapped in a package of nonsensical and even self-contradictory aphorisms. This is par for this sort of "book" (it's not a book, it's a pamphlet) - what is unusual is how violent the language of the book is... nothing like trodding over and destroying those who don't understand your vision for organization change. The book presents untestable hypotheses, uncited claims, and essentially no tools or mechanisms for actually doing the things they instruct you to do (not that anyone should do anything these authors suggest). If your organization is passing this book around, you should strongly consider whether this is an organization that values rational thought - and thus whether you should work there. Sad that you can't give negative stars - this book will hurt your organization.
27 of 32 people found the following review helpful:
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Worse than Chinese Water Torture,
By Joel W Vogt (Seattle) - See all my reviews
This review is from: High Velocity Culture Change: A Handbook for Managers (Paperback)
If a fourth grader had written at this level I'd send them back to third grade. Follow up the poor writing with an approach which can only be described as derived from brainwashing techniques, and you come up with a book that is more painful to read than undergoing Chinese Water Torture. The writer bombards the reader with poorly worded rephrasings of the same thing, again and again. He throws the rephrasings at the reader multiple times. The author switches his words around and repeats the same premise over and over. Get the idea. On TOP of this, the premises seem to go along the lines of: There is no consideration given to analysis, progress, fixing actual problems. The upper level manager at my company who promoted this book also cost our company more than $31 Million because she was addicted to changing things. I call that sort of thing a Legacy change, as in "look at what a good job I did, I changed things." It promotes change over results. Change for change sake does not equal progress. This book is even more painful than an Ayn Rand novel.
5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:
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Good for toilet paper,
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This review is from: High Velocity Culture Change: A Handbook for Managers (Paperback)
Unfortunately the manager at my company adopted the philosophy of this handbook. Since then, moral has taken a severe drop, senior employees have left and we've been investigated by outside sources for questionable practices. I have never read a book that promotes such ineffective methods of employee development. This book is trash!
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