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Title: The Change Monster : The Human Forces that Fuel or Foil Corporate Transformation and Change by Jeanie Daniel Duck ISBN: 0-609-80881-8 Publisher: Three Rivers Press Pub. Date: 13 August, 2002 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $14.00 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.06 (17 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: Packed With Knowledge!
Comment: Author Jeanie Daniel Duck presents an engaging, personal look at the human emotions, conflicts, fears and anxieties that unite to make change difficult. She describes the five stages of the change process - stagnation, preparation, implementation, determination and, finally, fruition. As she goes in depth about each stage, the author illustrates her explanation with personal examples from her experiences as an organizational consultant. Some of the issues she raises may be familiar to those who have read other books about how to launch change initiatives, but we [...] find that her focus on the human elements of change provides a fresh perspective. The book is directed primarily toward executives, managers or supervisors in charge of leading corporate change, but even if you are already prepared to conquer the change monster, this author's personal touches and stage-by-stage approach will intrigue you.
Rating: 4
Summary: Comforting
Comment: The change monster made me aware of the stages of change in a company: Stagnation,
Preparation, Implementation, and Fruition. Ms Duck seems to be an excellent consultant from the stories I read. The book seems oriented towards Human Resources types as the title suggests. My background is Information Technology consulting, so I found I related too only a few of her stories. I would say her stories were interesting and demonstrated how companies move through change stages arriving at fruition. Ms Duck reminences on her experience and draws important conclusions and abstractions from her experiences. Some of her experiences seemed familar while a larger portion were not as concrete. I could see how large organizations profit from her holositic view of change.
I'm sure her wisdom should not dismissed. I've read Jack Welch's books and reflected on the quantifiable and scientific approach to change and can see objective change can appeal rationally; however, Ms Duck seems to have produced change through insight and dramatic effects a vast range of companies and types. She seems to have a gift for perception and insight into the inner dynamics of the people that make change happen in a company. Duck hand holds her clients through change stages and comforts them by imparting wisdom that allows her client to see a "better way". This "better way" seems to have dynamic impacts on the production of the company. Once the barriers are removed the company matures and reaches fruition.
Rating: 4
Summary: Good book, would have been a better article...
Comment: This is a good book on leading change and the effect of change on people (and, in turn, the effect of people on the change initiative). However, it doesn't measure up to Kotter's "Leading Change," Ulrich, Zenger, and Smallwood's "Results-Based Leadership," or Fogg's "Implementing Your Strategic Plan." The problem is that the book really makes you work to mine the little "nuggets" of wisdom that it contains. Essentially, this book is a large case-study of Honeywell's Micro Switch subsidiary. Buried deep within the case study are the management principles that we're all reading the book to discover. I'm not saying that the book isn't well-written and worth the time to read; rather, I'm saying that it isn't easy. I would have preferred some quote-boxes or other graphics that highlighted the necessary information. Perhaps two or three chapters in the beginning that detail the change process and the book's fundamental management principles. In the end, I think this book would have been a fantastic article in Harvard Business Review. However, as a book, it just takes too long to get to the point. Overall grade: B-/B.
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Title: Harvard Business Review on Change (Harvard Business Review Paperback Series) by John P. Kotter, James Collins, Richard Pascale, Jeanie Daniel Duck, Anthony Athos, Jerry I. Porras ISBN: 0875848842 Publisher: Harvard Business School Press Pub. Date: September, 1998 List Price(USD): $19.95 |
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Title: Beyond the Wall of Resistance: Unconventional Strategies That Build Support for Change by Rick Maurer ISBN: 1885167075 Publisher: Bard Press Pub. Date: January, 1996 List Price(USD): $24.95 |
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Title: Managing At the Speed of Change by Daryl R. Conner ISBN: 0679406840 Publisher: Villard Pub. Date: 19 January, 1993 List Price(USD): $25.95 |
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Title: Designing Organizations: An Executive Guide to Strategy, Structure, and Process Revised by Jay R. Galbraith ISBN: 0787957453 Publisher: Jossey-Bass Pub. Date: 15 November, 2001 List Price(USD): $39.00 |
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Title: Managing Transitions: Making the Most of Change by William Bridges ISBN: 0738208248 Publisher: Perseus Publishing Pub. Date: 27 May, 2003 List Price(USD): $16.95 |
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