The Science of Successful Organizational Change (inbunden)
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Inbunden (Hardback)
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Engelska
Antal sidor
320
Utgivningsdatum
2015-05-20
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1
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Pearson FT Press
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illustrations
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241 x 171 x 25 mm
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562 g
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9780134000336

The Science of Successful Organizational Change

How Leaders Set Strategy, Change Behavior, and Create an Agile Culture

av Paul Gibbons
Inbunden,  Engelska, 2015-05-20

Slutsåld

The VUCA (Volatile, Uncertain, Complex, and Ambiguous) World Demands Change-Agile Businesses



Turbulent environments demand constant change, but the mindset, skills, and behaviors taught to business leaders are unhelpful and sometimes flatly misleading. What is more, many high-profile approaches to change do not help: they are based on untested belief systems, unreliable methods, and psychological myth.
The Science of Organizational Change identifies dozens of myths, bad models, and unhelpful metaphors, replacing some with twenty-first century research and revealing gaps where research needs to be done. Paul Gibbons links the origins of theories about change to the history of ideas and suggests that the human sciences will provide real breakthroughs in our understanding of people in the twenty-first century. For example, change fundamentally entails risk, yet little is written for business people about how breakthroughs in the psychology of risk can help change leaders. Change fundamentally involves changing peoples minds, yet the most recent research shows that provision of facts may strengthen resistance.

Gibbons explorations of the frontiers of twenty-first century behavioral science will help you build influence, improve communication, optimize decision making, and sustain change.

In complex organizations and systems, there are no silver bullets. But you can shift away from techniques that are harmful or that science says do not work and toward techniques supported by solid evidence.
  • Leading people through change: Tactics from 21st century human sciences
    Getting beyond flawed pop psychologyand failed pop leadership
  • New ways to change behaviorwithout coercion (carrots and sticks)
    Preserving dignity and autonomy, avoiding coercion or paternalismand succeeding
  • A new science of changing hearts and minds
    Reconceiving resistance, handling social complexity, using facts, and leveraging metacognition
  • Leading with science: The emergence of evidence-based management
    From anti-scientific management to experiment, hypothesis testing, and analytics


RETHINK EVERYTHING YOU KNOW ABOUT CHANGE
  • Discard metaphors such as carrots and sticks, burning platforms, the soft side of business, and resistance, all of which destroy effectiveness
  • Think about the risk, the true costs, and the results of change programs in a completely new way
  • Turn new insights from mindfulness, behavioral economics, complexity theory, and analytics into practical tools
  • Discard pseudoscience, and pop psychology as guides for how people in business behave
  • Make the shift towards greater accountability, scientific validity, and measure...
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PAUL GIBBONS (Fort Collins, CO) began his career by earning a degree in neurochemistry, followed by Masters-level study in International Economics and Finance. At 20, he moved to London as a "quant" derivatives trader, working at Salomon Brothers, Morgan Stanley, and First Boston. He eventually became Director of Eurobond Trading for the world's third largest bank, and later its Head of Money Market Sales and Trading. At 28, he resumed doctoral study in neuroscience, and then joined PwC as a strategist and expert on derivatives, advising on trading disasters such as Barings, National Westminster and Long-Term Capital. He then joined PwC's "Strategy, Innovation and Change" think-tank, developed its methodologies in change management, innovation and corporate transformation, and ran its board-level leadership development programs. Gibbons then founded his own firm, Future Considerations, which now competes successfully for leadership development and culture change consulting engagements at top companies. After selling that firm, he joined the University of Wisconsin, Madison as a lecturer, while continuing to coach senior executives worldwide. In 2008, CEO Magazine named him one of two "CEO Super Coaches." He recently published Reboot Your Life: A 12-day Program for Ending Stress, Realizing Your Goals, and Being More Productive.

Innehållsförteckning

Introduction   1


Chapter 1: Failed Change: The Greatest Preventable Cost to Business?   17
PART I: Change-Agility   37
Chapter 2: From Change Fragility to Change-Agility   41

PART II: Change Strategy   71
Chapter 3: Governance and the Psychology of Risk   77
Chapter 4: Decision Making in Complex and Ambiguous Environments   103
Chapter 5: Cognitive Biases and Failed Strategies   123
PART III: Change Tactics   157
Chapter 6: Misunderstanding Human Behavior   161
Chapter 7: The Science of Changing Behaviors   189
Chapter 8: The Science of Changing Hearts and Minds   221
Chapter 9: Leading with Science   255


Bibliography   293
Index   302

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