HBR's 10 Must Reads On Change Management

Harvard Business School

Publisher: Harvard Business School, 2011, 210 pages

ISBN: 978-1-4221-5800-5

Keywords: Change Management

Last modified: Aug. 10, 2024, 11:25 p.m.

Synopsis

Most companies' change initiatives fail. Yours don't have to.

If you read nothing else on change management, read these 10 articles. We've combed through hundreds of Harvard Business Review articles and selected the most important ones to help you spearhead change in your organization.

This book will inspire you to:

  • Lead change through eight critical stages
  • Establish a sense of urgency
  • Overcome addiction to the status quo
  • Mobilize commitment
  • Silence naysayers
  • Minimize the pain of change
  • Concentrate resources
  • Motivate change when business is good

Table of Contents

  • Leading Change: Why Transformation Efforts Fail
    John P. Kotter
  • Change Through Persuasion
    David A. Garvin and Michael A. Roberto
  • Leading Change When Business Is Good: An Interview with Samuel J. Palmisano
    Paul Hemp and Thomas A. Stewart
  • Radical Change, the Quiet Way
    Debra E. Meyerson
  • Tipping Point Leadership
    W. Chan Kim and Renée Mauborgne
  • A Survival Guide for Leaders
    Ronald A. Heifetz and Marty Linsky
  • The Real Reason People Won't Change
    Robert Kegan and Lisa Laskow Lahey
  • Cracking the Code of Change
    Michael Beer and Nitin Nohria
  • The Hard Side of Change Management
    Harold L. Sirkin, Perry Keenan, and Alan Jackson
  • Why Change Programs Don't Produce Change
    Michael Beer, Russell A. Eisenstat, and Bert Spector