Managing at the Speed of Change

An indispensable source for anyone who needs to implement business decisions on time and within budget. In today's ever-fluctuating world, it's not enough to recognize that you and the way you do business need to change. You must know how to make changes quickly, effectively and economically or you are bound to fail. Conner has taken his twenty years of change management experience and written a ground-breaking guide on resilient, successful change. His system focuses on how to change rather than what to change. Business people at all levels now face the major challenge of initiating company-wide reorganization plans, responding quickly to competition, establishing new products and markets, and adapting themselves smoothly to fluctuations in the economy.

THE SPEED OF CHANGE. Resilience and the Speed of Change. The Beast. THE CHANGE IMPERATIVE. Welcome to Day Twenty-Nine. Future Shock Is Here. LESSONS BURIED IN THE MYSTERY. The Nature of Change. The Process of Change. The Roles of Change. Resistance to Change. Committing to Change. Culture and Change. ONE PLUS ONE IS GREATER THAN TWO. Prerequisites to Synergy. The Synergistic Process. THE NATURE OF RESILIENCE. Unseen Mechanisms. Responding to the Crisis of Change. Enhancing Resilience. OPPORTUNITIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES. The Ethical Ploy. Epilogue. Index.