Description
Pearson More Fearless Change: Strategies For Making Your Ideas Happen by Mary Lynn Manns and Linda Rising
A guide to implementing and sustaining change in software organizations, this book covers every stage in the change process that students will one day need: knowledge, persuasion, decision, implementation, and confirmation. The authors help students understand the forces in an organization that promote and restrict change, and teach strategy for driving participation and buy-in, from start to finish. Readers learn how to plant seeds of change, make proposed changes seem less threatening, sustain momentum, overcome adversity, and celebrate success.
Salient Features
Includes 15 never-before-published patterns for making change and overcoming the obstacles to sustaining it
Thoroughly explains each change leadership technique and shows exactly how to apply it
Illuminates the forces in an organization that drive and restrict change, and teaches how to drive participation and buy-in, from start to finish
Includes practical advice on planting the seeds of change, making proposed changes appear less threatening, sustaining momentum, overcoming adversity, and celebrating success"