Beyond Change Management: How to Achieve Breakthrough Results Through Conscious Change Leadership, 2nd Edition

Successful organizational transformation does not just happen. It is consciously planned, designed and implemented using advanced change leadership skills. In their cutting edge book, BEYOND CHANGE MANAGEMENT: How to Achieve Breakthrough Results through Conscious Change Leadership (Pfeiffer, September 22, 2010 / $55 paperback), best-selling authors Dean Anderson and Linda Ackerman Anderson provide a complete understanding of what it really takes to lead transformation successfully.

In BEYOND CHANGE MANAGEMENT, the authors reveal the human and change process dynamics that leaders and consultants must be aware of to design successful change projects, turn employee resistance into commitment, and deliver extraordinary results. They highlight why most leaders do not see these dynamics, and describe the shift in worldview and change practices leaders must make to succeed. Topics include:

• Achieving Breakthrough Results from Change: 60% of change efforts fail. Here’s how to achieve not just ordinary outcomes from change, but truly extraordinary ones.
• The Drivers of Change: Know the drivers of change and you can scope your projects accurately.
• Three Types of Organization Change: Know your specific type of change and you can build a change strategy that actually works.
• Two Leadership Approaches to Transformation: Most leaders operate on autopilot; here’s how to operate consciously and see what most change leaders miss.
• Building Organizational Change Capability: When you approach change as a strategic discipline, you ensure system-wide change capability.
• Human Dynamics - From Resistance to Commitment: Discover how to help employees satisfy their core needs so their resistance disappears and commitment blossoms naturally.
• The Role and Impact of Mindset: Mindset is causative; it determines everything else. Here’s how; and why mindset change is essential in transformation.
• The Role and Impact of Culture: Culture matters and determines an organization’s level of success. Discover which cultures produce greater results, and the keys to transforming culture.
• Conscious Process Thinking: The next evolution beyond project and systems thinking, apply conscious process thinking to build effective change plans.
• Change Process Models: Here are the nine phases that effective change efforts go through.
• Answering the Call: What do you stand for as a change leader? What is the difference your change leadership will make in the world?

As they did in their best-selling first edition, the authors challenge leaders to think bigger, alter their mindsets and leadership styles, and operate more consciously. BEYOND CHANGE MANAGEMENT expands the conversation about what transformation is, what it takes to lead it successfully, and how to unleash the human potential for greatness through consciously led transformational change efforts.