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

by Dean Anderson; Linda Ackerman Anderson

• ISBN13: 9780787956455
• ISBN10: 0787956457
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2001-03-01
• Publisher: Pfeiffer

Summary

Transform your organization! To truly transform your organization, you must learn to transform your own mindset. Beyond Change Management-the only book specifically about the interaction of leadership style, mindset, and the change process-revolutionizes leaders' approach to transformational change. Shattering the myth that transformation can be managed, this book-part of the Practicing OD Series--offers you new directions and ways of thinking and behaving that are essential for successful change. Its unique approach brings organization development (OD) into the mainstream of leaders' approaches to change, expanding and integrating the fields of OD, leadership, change management, and consciousness. You'll also get: ready-to-use worksheets questionnaires guidelines "Powerful business solutions to the current chaos facing many organizations today. Dean Anderson and Linda Ackerman Anderson get to the heart of change, the human touch, by using timeless techniques and tools." --Ken Blanchard, coauthor, The One Minute Manager and Gung Ho! "The authors combine their keen observations, sharp insights, and open hearts to produce towering works that will stand as lasting contributions to leadership and organization development. . . .[t]hey guide us along a path of personal discovery so that we may have the strength of spirit to risk the creation of more meaningful organizations." --Jim Kouzes, coauthor, The Leadership Challenge and Encouraging the Hear

Author Biography

DEAN ANDERSON is the creator of The Leadership Breakthrough Program, which is Being First's hallmark process for changing leadership mindset and transforming culture in corporations. During the late 1970s and 1980s he did groundbreaking work on how to optimize personal performance through personal change, and is currently a through leader in the field of organization transformation. LINDA S. ACKERMAN ANDERSON spearheaded the development of the most comprehensive change management methodology available on the market today, leading the writing of the Change Process Guidebook for her company, Being First, Inc. She was one of the original creators of the Organization Transformation field, and has spoken about the subject all over the world.

Table of Contents

List of Tables, Figures, and Exhibits	xi
Foreword to the Series	xiii
Introduction to the Series	xv
Statement of the Board	xix
Dedication	xxiv
Preface	xxv
Acknowledgments	xxix
Introduction	1	(14)
Section One A Call for Conscious Transformation
The Drivers of Change	15	(16)
The Drivers of Change	16	(6)
The Evolution of Change and the Required Expansion of Leadership Awareness and Attention	22	(8)
Summary	30	(1)
Three Types of Organization Change	31	(20)
Developmental Change	34	(1)
Transitional Change	35	(4)
Transformational Change	39	(8)
Determining the Type of Change Taking Place	47	(3)
Summary	50	(1)
Two Leadership Approaches to Transformation	51	(26)
Two Approaches to Transformation	52	(5)
Wake-Up Calls for Transformation	57	(16)
Do You Operate Consciously or Reactively?	73	(1)
Summary	73	(4)
Section Two Mindset: The leverage Point for Transformation
The Role and impact of Mindset	77	(26)
What Is Mindset?	80	(2)
Way of Being	82	(1)
The Impact of Mindset on Perception	83	(1)
The Impact of Mindset on State of Being	84	(3)
The Fundamental Law of Success	87	(1)
Self Mastery	88	(6)
Awareness: The Foundation of Self Mastery	94	(2)
From Victim to Full Contributor	96	(1)
Walking the Talk of Change	97	(1)
Culture and Mindset	98	(3)
Summary	101	(2)
Fundamental Assumptions About Reality	103	(32)
Our Assumptions About Assumptions	105	(1)
Take This Chapter to Heart	106	(1)
The Source of Your Fundamental Assumptions About Reality	107	(2)
A New Set of Assumptions About Reality	109	(1)
The Great Chain of Being	110	(2)
Four Cornerstones of the Industrial Mindset	112	(3)
Four Cornerstones of the Emerging Mindset	115	(2)
Comparing the Two Mindsets	117	(4)
The Ten Principles of Conscious Transformation	121	(8)
Applying These Principles	129	(2)
Summary	131	(4)
Section Three A Process Orientation for Leading Transformation
Conscious Process Thinking	135	(24)
Differentiating Among Uses of the Word ``Process''	136	(1)
Our Definition of Process	137	(1)
The Different Levels of Process	138	(3)
Three Thinking Orientations	141	(6)
Tools of the Thinking Orientations	147	(3)
The Impact of Change Leadership Styles on Process Design and Facilitation	150	(5)
Summary	155	(4)
Change Process Models	159	(22)
Change Process Methodologies	160	(1)
Change Frameworks vs. Change Process Models	161	(3)
The Change Process Model As a Thinking Discipline	164	(1)
Transformation As a Fullstream Process	165	(3)
The Nine-Phase Change Process Model	168	(6)
There Is No Cookbook for Transformation!	174	(1)
Comparing Your Experience with Other Change Models	174	(4)
Summary	178	(3)
Section Four Conscious Transformational Leadership
Developing Conscious Change Leaders	181	(18)
The Evolution of the Leader`s Role	181	(6)
Arenas for Development	187	(4)
A Curriculum for Developing Conscious Change Leaders	191	(5)
Summary	196	(3)
The Leadership Choice to Transform	199	(6)
Summary	203	(2)
Appendix: Development Arenas for Conscious Change Leaders	205	(4)
Bibliography	209	(10)
About the Authors	219	(4)
About the Editors	223	(4)
Index	227