How Crammed Cupboards, Cluttered Offices, and Off-the-Cuff Planning make the World a Better Place.

From the bestselling author of 'Reviving Ophelia' and 'The Shelter of Each Other', comes a beautiful homage to the transformative power of words.

Addresses the effects of employee layoffs on those who survive and on the organization itself. The text describes the anger, anxiety and guilt these survivors feel, and then goes on to detail the double-bind in which these employees and the organization are caught.

This book takes the reader outside the box of ordinary change theory and challenges us to effect change in our workplace by engaging in personal, transformative change. The message of the book is that by changing yourself you can change the world.

Argues that firms succeed or fail in their industries according to the degree to which they are able to change to meet changing market decisions. The authors present a framework for managing the process of organizational transformation, and the tools that are necessary to manage that change.

The pace of change has been extraordinary and it has become much harder for businesses to anticipate the environment in which they will be operating not far down the line. This book offers information on what the future holds - how things are becoming ever faster, more urban, more tribal, more universal, more radical and more ethical.

Rejecting the belief, common among politicians, that all would be well in society if only the public sector operated more like the private sector, this book sets out a fresh approach to creating successful hospitals, police forces, universities, charities, and other non-profit-making organisations.

A step-by-step guide on how to make change happen. It is written by one of the U.S.'s leading commentators on issues of performance, strategy and change.

What we have not sufficiently developed is the thinking concerned with what can be. This is thinking that is creative and constructive, and which seeks to solve conflicts and problems by designing a way forward. This title emphasises on thinking that is on design and not judgement.

Explores effective strategies for improving workplace productivity through dignity, meaning, and community.

Second edition.

Takes readers to the next level of precision in strategy implementation. This title offers a visual cause-and-effect explanation of what's working and what doesn't in a way that everyone in the company can understand. It helps get the organization involved in strategy.

Provides readers with the knowledge to understand, and the skills to manage, innovation at the operational and strategic levels. It aims to integrate the management of market, organizational and technological change to improve the competitiveness of firms and effectiveness of other organizations.

This manual, designed for those who spend much of their day trying to stay afloat in an organization, helps readers see themselves and their organizations in new and more productive ways. It uses stories to give advice on how to arrive at a position of peace, power, freedom and influence.

A Leadership Network Publication With this much-needed handbook, the authors brilliantly combine their experience guiding dozens of churches through the change process with both the study of Christian disciplines and the sophisticated understanding of such important business thinkers as John Kotter on leading change and Peter Senge on learning organizations. In this eminently readable book the ...

With new material by the author, a 25th-anniversary edition of the classic and practical guide to dealing with life's difficult and painful changes. Whether it is chosen or thrust upon you, change brings both opportunities and turmoil.

Suitable for managers, this title aims to show the real root of management problems. It helps you learn how to stop blaming your workers and start changing the systems with the help of activities and exercises that enable you to begin implementing breakthrough improvements in your work processes.

A hands-on guide that explains how you can learn to tell the right story at the right time.