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Changing the Essence Richard Beckhard

Changing the Essence By Richard Beckhard

Changing the Essence by Richard Beckhard


Summary

Using illustrative examples of organizational leaders who have successfully responded to rapidly changing conditions in the business environment, this text reveals the strategies and leadership behaviours required to manage and integrate fundamental change.

Changing the Essence Summary

Changing the Essence: The Art of Creating and Leading Environmental Change in Organizations by Richard Beckhard

Reveals the strategies and leadership behaviors required to manage and integrate fundamental change. Uses illustrative examples of CEOs who have successfully led radical rethinking of purpose and priorities, vision, and the very structure and functions of the organization itself.

Changing the Essence Reviews

"The indispensable leadership handbook for men and women who mustmanage the massive change, complexity, and opportunity that markour time." --Frances Hesselbein, president and CEO, The PeterDrucker Foundation

"This new book helps us see that fundamental change is bothpersonal and relentlessly systemic, or it is nothing at all."--Peter Senge, author of The Fifth Discipline

About Richard Beckhard

Richard Beckhard was an American organizational theorist, Adjunct Professor at MIT, and pioneer in the field of organization development. Beckhard co-launched the Addison-Wesley Organization Development Series and began the Organization Development Network in 1967.

Wendy Pritchard is the author of Changing the Essence: The Art of Creating and Leading Environmental Change in Organizations, published by Wiley.

Table of Contents

Preface. The Authors. Choosing the Fundamental Change Strategy. Creating a Learning Organization: Balanced Rewards for Results and Improvement. Leading a Vision-Driven Change Effort: A Commitment to the Future. Focusing the Effort: Crucial Themes That Drive Change. Resolving the Leader's Personal Dilemmas: Style and Behavior. Aligning the Organization: Integration of Roles, Systems, and Rewards. Leading the Transition: Strategies for Process, Commitment, and Communication. Epilogue: Visionary Leaders and Transformed Organizations. References. Suggestions for Further Reading. Index.

Additional information

GOR003553767
9781555424121
1555424120
Changing the Essence: The Art of Creating and Leading Environmental Change in Organizations by Richard Beckhard
Used - Very Good
Hardback
John Wiley & Sons Inc
1992-02-12
128
N/A
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