Год выпуска: 2008 Автор: David Herold, Donald Fedor Издательство: Страниц: 176 ISBN: 0804758751
Описание
Popular wisdom suggests that fewer than 20% of all change initiatives are really successful. More alarming still for top managers, a survey of 1087 corporate directors, reported in BusinessWeek in 2005, found that 31% of CEOs fired by their boards were rmoved because they mismanaged change; more than any other cause. Why is this happening—and why do we need another book purporting to have "the answer"?Herold and Fedor have spent the last ten years pursuing this question through a series of studies that hve examined more than 300 changes and over 8000 individuals who have lived through them. They asked executives to think of an unsuccessful change initiative, and identify the key factors that were responsible for the failure. They found that, while almos all advice about organizational change focuses on a few steps applied to a single change, few people actually lived in a "one change at a time" environment; rather they lived on a "roller coaster of change," with overlapping changes...
