Description
Balancing Acts offers consultants and managers a simple, powerful way to think about change, and ascribes a four-phase iterative process for implementing change. Reviewing change initiatives from different types of organizations, Balancing Acts confronts the problems and pitfalls head-on that often arise during workplace transitions. Conklin explains why organizational change can be so difficult, and shows that by balancing a set of competing psychological and systemic challenges, interveners will increase their chance of success.
Conklin shows that human groups function as complex systems, and that a change initiative is not a linear progression toward a predefined result. Instead, change is an iterative process that involves a search for feasible and useful solutions. The book's central argument is that while leading or supporting this search, consultants and leaders must balance four critical concerns: confrontation and compassion, participation and observation, assertion and inquiry, and planfulness and emergence.
Author: James Conklin
Publisher: Rotman-Utp Publishing
Published: 10/15/2021
Pages: 376
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 1.49lbs
Size: 9.10h x 6.20w x 1.30d
ISBN13: 9781487540272
ISBN10: 1487540272
BISAC Categories:
- Business & Economics | Strategic Planning
- Business & Economics | Management | General
- Business & Economics | Nonprofit Organizations & Charities | General