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Change Without Pain: How Managers Can Overcome Initiative Overload, Organizational Chaos, and Employee Burnout Eric Abrahamson 
 Format: Hardcover, 288pp. ISBN: 9781578518272 Publisher: Harvard Business School Press Pub. Date: December 2003 Average Customer Review:  
For Bulk Orders Call: 626-441-2024  Description and Reviews From The Publisher: For more than two decades, businesses have been warned to "change or perish." Yet a growing number of companies are perishing because of change. What's going on? Columbia Business School professor Eric Abrahamson argues that while change is necessary for companies to grow and prosper, many organizations have blindly taken the mandate too far. The "creative destruction" advocated by change champions has resulted in a painful cycle of initiative overload, change-related chaos, and widespread employee cynicism. To reverse this cycle, Abrahamson says, companies must learn to change how they change. Drawing on a decade of research and dozens of company examples, this book offers a positive new approach to change called "creative recombination." Rather than obliterating and then reinventing anew, creative recombination seeks sustainable, repeatable transformation by reconfiguring the people, structures, culture, processes, and networks the company already has. Abrahamson offers a broad toolkit of techniques for achieving smoother, more cost-efficient, less painful organizational change-and helpful guidance for how and when to implement each tool. A refreshing paradigm for change has arrived-and companies don't need anything new, revolutionary, or radical to make it happen. The inspiring result: Change will actually work, for a change. Reviews "In Change Without Pain, Abrahamson calmly reminds us that more often than not we can build what we need for the future out of the various bits and pieces we have accumulated in the past. And we can do so with greater success and with far less pain, dislocation, and waste." —Alan Kantrow, Chief Knowledge Officer, Monitor Group and Dean of Faculty, Monitor University
About the Author Eric Abrahamson is Professor of Management at Columbia Business School in New York City and an internationally recognized expert on change management. Table of Contents
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