Change management articles and resources
Change management articles and all key resources used and referred to throughout the site are detailed below.
Scroll down to view "Recommended Free Third Party Resources" these together with the PDF Search tools listed below are an ideal resource for site vistors who are researching material for futher and higher education, and of course the general reader.
I thoroughly recommend these PDF research tools as they provide keyword searches across the whole internet and will list all free PDF documents found against the selected keyword search terms. These are excellent tools for finding articles, reports, interviews and other documents that otherwise remain "hidden" on sites.
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Finally, at the bottom of this page you will find links to the other paid for resources that are available from this website.
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Change Management Articles for Successful Implementation
I have currently published over 90 articles on-line on a range of change management related subjects - all referenced and linked to material on this site. These are now hosted at www.stephen-warrilow.com
You will also find a number of articles on this site, together with vistors' articles and commments at How to Manage Change in Practise
Guest Change Management Articles
Identify Your Organizations Ability to Think
Change Capacity - What Makes Change Easy or Difficult to Implement?
Managing things and leading people
Better Communication Skills - Silence and Violence
Know where you are starting
Understand Your Decision Makers' Current Mindset
Shape a Compelling Business Case For Change
Protocols of Change Management
Change Resistance - How to Overcome it
Management vs Leadership - What's the Difference and Does it Matter?
Leadership Failure - How to Avoid it
Recession Proof Businesses - How to Survive the Recession
You can also find selected change management articles at Evan Carmichael the site which specialises in providing support for small businesses and is the number one site for small business motivations and strategies.
Recommended Free Third Party Resources
The Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development [CIPD] This is the professional body for those involved in HR, Personnel and the management and development of people. The CIPD Change Management - Guidance Paper is a factsheet that the CIPD [originally issued in December 2004 and revised in November 2007] giving introductory guidance and their perspective on change management.
The Free Management Library is an excellent site that provides easy-to-access, clutter-free, comprehensive resource of change management articles and also much material regarding leadership and management.Free Management Library - Strategic Planning is hosted by Carter McNamara, MBA, PhD Authenticity Consulting, LLC, co-founder, who is an internationally recognized expert in using peer coaching groups (Action Learning) methods to facilitate learning and organizational change.
Resilience Report is a monthly update on business complexity and strategy-based transformation. An exclusive service for readers of strategy+business , it offers original research, case studies, and other intellectual capital from international consulting firm Booz & Company:Booz & Company - Resilience Reports
Here are 3 excellent change management articles and reports, the first outlines good principles for change management and the second and third reports offer current strategic thinking re the current economic climate.
Booz & Company - 10 Principles of Change Management
Booz & Company - Rethink Your Stratgey
Booz & Company - 7 Ways Forward
Thinking Managers - The two contributing editors are Robert Heller and Edward de Bono, two of the leading creative thinkers in management today, and they are building a free business and management library with a wealth of change management articles and related material for all thinking managers...Thinking Managers - Strategic Management Highly recommended!
The Strategic Planning Society [SPS] fosters and promotes research and best practice in strategic thought and action. The Strategic Planning Society undertake to create a link between the academic and practitioner worlds of strategy by keeping strategists up-to-date with developments in strategy-related research and practice.This is an example of their excellent resources: Change and Survive
Skullworks is the brainchild of Fred Nickols, Managing Partner of Distance Consulting. Skullworks contains many informative and indepth articles and studies on strategy and organization development plus change management articles and a range of other management subjects. Fred is an interesting man with a refreshing perspective that is well expressed.
Thought leadership John Baldoni is a recognized thought leader in leadership and communications as well as a popular motivational speaker, executive coach, and communications consultant. In 2007 John was named one of the world’s top 30 leadership gurus by Leadership Gurus International. In my view, he talks a lot of sense and is very practical. If you check out all of the tabs and links on his website you will find many free articles and videos.
Harvard Business Publishing - The publishers of The Harvard Business Review - offer a series of free articles by several thought leaders [courtesy of sponsorship by Microsoft] on key aspects of leadership versus management. The keynote article is
Recession survival guide
Business balls - Alan Chapman from
Business balls
has an excellent site with quality indepth articles on change management.
MSP [Managing Successful Programmes] Office of Govt and Commerce - sponsors of MSP
Best Management Practice - MSP
Managing Successful Programmes.Com
MSP Official Site
E-Programme - The Programme Management Website
Project Smart - Programme Management
JISC Infonet - Programme Management
Additional Resources - recently updated Training Zone
Change Management Toolbook
Scribd
Docstoc
Ken Blanchard's Leaders' Chat
Center For Leadership
Center For Leadership - Change Management
Change Management Newsletter
Management Consulting News
Journal of Change Management N.B. This is NOT free.
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PDF Research Tools
If you are a student or a researcher or just interested in finding more in depth information then I recommend the following search tools. Unlike a typical google search that will produce a listing of websites deemed relevant to the search words, these tools search on PDF documents located within websites.
Given that some of the "best" data on websites is stored within PDFs that are not easily accessed, these search tools will reveal a host of new (and largely free) data in the form of articles, research, interviews and other publications. Why not try it now - just enter a search word or phrase and see what it reveals.
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