Creating Paths of Change
Managing Issues and Resolving Problems in Organizations
- Will McWhinney - Enthusion Inc, Venice, CA, USA
- James B. Webber - Independent Management Consultant, New Hampshire
- Douglas M. Smith - Partner, Organomics Inc, Calgary
- Bernie J. Novokowsky - Senior Consultant, Calgary
May 1997 | 224 pages | SAGE Publications, Inc
Individuals, organizations, and communities constantly engage in change. Creating Paths of Change is a provides the reader with a proven strategy for making changes and resolving issues more effectively. This effective workbook is written for individuals and groupsùmanagers, entrepreneurs, and consultants ûwho are taking responsibility for the change effort. It addresses the problems faced in the daily operations of organizational life, and provides a foundation and theory for effective and sustained issue resolution. Creating Paths of Change guides the reader, in a step-by-step fashion, through the change-making or decision-making process helping the reader identify and improve his or her personal problem-solving style. The book has been used by individual managers, community volunteers, organizational consultants in a number of settings, and has been thoroughly class-tested in university courses.
You, the Agent of Change
Introduction
The Modes of Change
Leadership and the Team
The Game of Change
The Paths of Change
Solving the Problem
Two Cases
Tools of Change
Essential text on module reading list
WBDL, Universityof Lincoln
November 18, 2015