• ChangingMinds.org is the world's largest free, full-content site on all aspects on how we change what others think, believe, feel and do. Highly recommended. ChangingMinds.org

  Also the sister site CreatingMinds.Org providing you with real and useful principles, tools, articles and quotes about all matters around being creative and using creativity.

  I highly recommend you check out "The Creative Toolbox" on the Home Page as an excellent resource for creating ideas, defining and solving problems and much more!




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• 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.




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• 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.




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• 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

  
  

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• 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!

  
  

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• The Emerging Leader is a group of people who have a strong desire to improve their leadership skills. The purpose of Emerging Leader is to promote effective, productive and dynamic leadership practices and to provide a place to develop skills and learn from others. Another good source of change management articles and related material.

  
  

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• 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

  
  

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• 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. To navigate I suggest you take a look at the featured article Change Management in Hard Times on the Home Page, then click on Articles on the tool bar to access the main resources. Or try this direct link to change management articles and a range of other related subjects. Fred is an interesting man with a refreshing perspective that is well expressed.

  
  

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• 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.




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• 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

  
  

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• Business balls - Alan Chapman from Business balls has an excellent site with quality indepth articles on change management.

  
  

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• 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

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