Beyond Change Management
Advanced Strategies for Today's
Transformational Leaders

by Dean Anderson & Linda Ackerman Anderson
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Finally, after twenty-five years of successful consulting and teaching, Linda Ackerman Anderson and Dean Anderson reveal their innovative approach to transforming organizations—Conscious Transformation. This compelling book outlines their secrets to success in a no-nonsense fashion, and describes in detail what their long consulting practices have shown works and does not work in leading and consulting to transformational change. Beyond Change Management makes the often unseen and confusing dynamics of transformation crystal clear, and puts the keys to successfully leading and consulting to transformation in your hands.

Benefits of Reading This Book

• Accelerate the pace and reduce the costs of your transformation efforts
• Turn yourself into a successful change leader or consultant
• Identify how to develop change strategies that fit the type of change your organization is undergoing
• Avoid common and costly mistakes in leading transformation
• Learn to design an initial change plan and successfully fine-tune it as required by the realities of implementation

Beyond Change Management will introduce you to a revolutionary new approach to organizational change, and reveal why you must first transform yourself, and how you perceive, behave, and lead, in order to successfully transform your organization. It describes the evolution that managers are undergoing—first becoming leaders, then change managers, and finally change leaders—and the mindset, strategies, and skills needed to be a successful change leader.

This easy-to-read resource will teach you about the three different types of change, and why traditional change management and project management approaches work in some types of change, but not in transformational change. You will be introduced to the new change leadership competency of "conscious process thinking," and discover how to use a process approach to integrate organizational and technical changes with their required human and cultural initiatives. You will discover why leader and employee mindset change is the key driver of successful transformation. You will also get an overview of Being First’s Change Process Model for Leading Conscious Transformation, which is described in detail in the companion volume, The Change Leader’s Roadmap.

Beyond Change Management has been touted as the first book to integrate human development theories and practices with organizational systems theory, project management, and organizational development. A unique blend with a powerful result. See for yourself. Whether you are an executive change sponsor, change project manager, change consultant, or student of change, you will learn proven methods for maximizing your results from change.

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Chapter One: The Drivers of Change
Discover how the evolution of organizational change requires an expansion of leadership awareness and skill

Chapter Two: Three Types of Organizational Change
Learn why developmental and transitional change strategies are insufficient for leading transformational change

Chapter Three: Two Leadership Approaches to Transformation
One approach works, the other doesn't. Discover which you take.

Chapter Four: The Role and Impact of Mindset
Discover why you must attend to mindset—yours and your people—for successful transformation

Chapter Five: Fundamental Assumptions About Reality
See why transformation requires a radical shift in your underlying worldview of change people, and organizations

Chapter Six: Conscious Process Thinking
Discover why "process thinking" must replace leaders' traditional reliance on "project thinking."

Chapter Seven: Change Process Models
See why today's common change frameworks are insufficient for leading complex change, and learn the none-phase Change Process Model for Leading Conscious Transformation

Chapter Eight: Developing Conscious Change Leaders
Learn how leader's roles are evolving and design a curriculum for furthering your own change leadership development

Chapter Nine: The Leadership Choice to Transform
Put it all together to develop yourself as a conscious transformational leader

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Beyond Change Management: Advanced Strategies for Today's Transformational Leaders

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