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The End of Change : How Your Company Can Sustain Growth and Innovation While Avoiding Change Fatigue Peter Scott-Morgan, Erik Hoving, Henk Smit and Arnold Van Der Slot 
 Format: Hardcover, 304pp. ISBN: 9780071357005 Publisher: McGraw-Hill Pub. Date: July 2000 Average Customer Review: 
For Bulk Orders Call: 626-441-2024  Description and Reviews From The Publisher: Peter Scott-Morgan, author of the best-selling, The Unwritten Rules of the Game, and hiscolleagues at Arthur D. Little have discovered that Fortune 500 companies are currently spending twice their profits on change initiatives; yet they are only satisfied with half the results. The obvious question is How can we stop this? The paradigmshifting answer, based on a six year study of Fortune 500 companies, is: concentrate on maximizing stability within a changing environmentdont fixate on change. This book explains how by developing the six competencies needed to achieve dynamic stability the management stabilizers of strategy, tactics, operations, and the enabling stabilizers of teamwork, quality, and communicationcompanies can avoid being swamped by the disruption of unending turbulence. Peter Scott-Morgan, author of the best-selling, The Unwritten Rules of the Game, and his colleagues at Arthur D. Little have discovered that Fortune 500 companies are currently spending twice their profits on change initiatives; yet they are only satisfied with half the results. The obvious question is How can we stop this? The paradigmshifting answer, based on a six year study of Fortune 500 companies, is: concentrate on maximizing stability within a changing environmentdont fixate on change. This book explains how by developing the six competencies needed to achieve dynamic stabilitythe management stabilizers of strategy, tactics, operations, and the enabling stabilizers of teamwork, quality, and communicationcompanies can avoid being swamped by the disruption of unending turbulence. Like seagulls in a growing storm, companies must become masterful at maximizing stability amid turbulence. Some gulls will struggle to survive. The most skillful will ride the winds, drawing on their experience and applying the techniques perfected in milder weather. These will know best how to anticipate major currents, how to spot and avoid obstacles, how to respond rapidly and vigorously to unexpected updrafts and downdrafts. The less experienced and less skillful will eventually exhaust themselves. We need to learn from the seagulls. Reviews "Change is complex, it's tough, it's unpredictable. This book provides tools, techniques and diagnostics to bring clarity to the complexity. Building on the insights from the "unwritten rules of the game" it shows how the philosophy and tactics of change can be aligned to strategy and context. It's a fresh, insightful read, packed full of words of wisdom and immediate takeaways. A must for any manager who aspires to be a change agent." —Lynda Gratton, Professor, Organisational Behaviour, London Business School. "Very timely and practical messages, especially for leaders who want to have result-driven and lasting remedies." —Daeje Chin, PhD, President & CEO/Digital, Media Business, Samsun Electronics Co.,Ltd.
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