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If you are: overwhelmed by the amount of change and the difficulty in making it happen, finding failure - or limited success - with the implementation of changes, disappointed in the growth or financial performance of your organization, and are looking for a strategy for improving your organization's capacity for planned and proactive change, this book is for you.
The world is continuing to change at a rapid pace, while most organizations are focused on maintaining stability and certainty. The price of this growing gap is the diversion of limited resources to reactive, fire-fighting behaviors and the inability to lead and be proactive. Allowing the gap to continue to grow is the formula for failure, this book gives you the formula for success.
In The EverChanging Organization, the authors present a model of the EverChanging Organization(ECO). This is a systems model for understanding an organization's needed capacity for change in a range of change orientations from change averse to change seeking. The book includes diagnostic scales, tools for assessing need and status as an ECO, and a process for selecting and implementing change initiatives to achieve the needed capacity for change in timely and cost effective ways.
List of contents
Introduction: The EverChanging Organization (ECO)Organizational Environments and the Forces for Change - What's Needed?Building a Stabilizing Base - Guiding the Organization in Turbulent TimesManaging FOR Change - Becoming Proactive and Making Change EasyContinuous Improvement - Always Possible and Everyone's RoleContinuous Learning - Required for Organizational and Individual GrowthImplementation - Steps Towards Becoming an EverChanging Organization
About the author
Pieters, Gerald R
Summary
Presents a systems model for understanding an organization's needed capacity for change in a range of change orientations from change averse to change seeking. This book provides diagnostic scales, tools for assessing needs, and cost-effective processes for selecting and implementing change initiatives.
