Big Change A Route-Map for Corporate Transformation

by Taffinder, Paul

• ISBN13: 9780471982883
• ISBN10: 0471982881
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 1998-07-09
• Publisher: Wiley

Summary

Every year corporations spend billions in pursuit of change. Some are successful. Many are not. In this winner of the prestigious 1999 Management Consultancy Association Prize, Paul Taffinder casts a critical eye over the big change efforts of more than 30 organizations worldwide, and offers conclusions as unsettling as they are insightful and firmly supported by real-world business sense. "Paul Taffinder achieves what in many other books remains an empty promise. Brilliant insight...inspiring...A real eye-opener."--Dr. Siegfried Hoenle, Director, Warburg Dillon Read.

Author Biography

Paul Taffinder is a director at Coopers & Lybrand Management Consulting and practices within the firm’s Corporate Transformation Group. Following a Master’s degree and then a PhD in organizational psychology — and what he describes as "a mercifully brief career" in the mining industry — he turned his attention to organizational research and consultancy, becoming passionately interested in the shape of corporations to come and the importance of the socio-psychological driving forces that underlie the world of business. His first book The New Leaders looked specifically at the role of leadership and change, an area in which he has years of in-depth experience consulting internationally. A provocative speaker at international conferences, he is emerging as one of the world’s foremost thinkers on the psychology of organizational change, tenaciously challenging uncritical management orthodoxy and raising the ambition of business leaders. You can E-mail Paul Taffinder at: [e-mail] or you can visit Coopers & Lybrand on the World Wide Web at: www.uk.coopers.com/

Table of Contents

Foreword	ix
Acknowledgements	xiii
Big Change? Change to What...?	1	(32)
Big Change -- An Unnatural Act	33	(30)
The Leadership of Big Change	63	(25)
Systemic Innovation	88	(29)
Conflict Escalation	117	(32)
Awakening	149	(25)
Conceiving the Future	174	(29)
Building the Change Agenda	203	(32)
Delivering Big Change	235	(22)
Mastering Change	257	(20)
References	277	(4)
Index	281