Opposing the notion that organisational change can be planned, predicted, or controlled, this timely book offers a critical perspective on change management. Johan Coetsee, Patrick Flood, Steven Kilroy and Teresa O'Hara portray change as a fluid phenomenon shaped by negotiation, tension, and the complex realities of power, politics, and institutions.Consolidating insights from leadership, stakeholder engagement, and ethics, the authors present a context-sensitive understanding of c...

Encompassing interviews with managing directors and CEOs, this book explores the role of business outsiders as leaders. Viewing the term ‘outsider’ in a broad sense, the book considers leader background, perspective, gender, training and family membership and examines the implications, challenges and benefits brought by outsider leaders to their respective business environments. The authors explore questions and themes such as how outsider leaders can enrich an organisation, the importance...

The communication aspect of leadership – to actively engage your followers and achieve understanding and motivation whilst making the message memorable – has never been more important. Using vivid lessons and examples from spheres outside business organization, The Persuasive Leader explores the leader's role as a communicator and teaches the fundamental principles of successful leadership.This book provides insights and principles about persuasive leadership from a broad ...

"5 stars: Exceptional, a must read for any manager or leader"—Sarah Stocks, Chartered Management Institute (CMI)"This book is a highly effective, meaningful and user-friendly guide for anyone trying to manage change in a modern organisation today"—inManagement magazine"If you are looking for a book to give you some hints and tips as to how to manage change better, this will be able to do this. [...] There are some gre...

Reviews:Going Green Together is an excellent scientific achievement and is leading the way in giving advice on how to green a business sustainably.--Dr. Aidan O'Driscoll, Editor Irish Marketing ReviewThis book is a valuable addition to the literature on implementing organisational change and contains many useful insights on how to go green by bridging knowing doing gaps.--Sean Byrne, Contributor The Irish TimesThis award winning thesis provides essenti...

With a clear organizing framework, based on a process model of change, and vast breadth of coverage, John Hayes' best-selling textbook covers all stages of change management.This 7th edition equips you with the practical tools, and knowledge of recent academic research and thinking, to manage change in all types of organizations. It embeds learning with a range of pedagogical tools, including experiential learning exercises, research reports, in-text examples and c...

Finalist for the 2015 Financial Times and McKinsey Business Book of the YearBest business book of the week from Inc.comThe author of Power, Stanford business school professor, and a leading management thinker offers a hard-hitting dissection of the leadership industry and ways to make workplaces and careers work better.The leadership enterprise is enormous, with billions of dollars, thousands of books, and hundreds of thousands of blogs and talks focused on improvin...

'This book shows how to find, attract, develop, motivate, and retain stars. It's full of evidence and provocative ideas to help every talent leader' Dr Adam Grant, Wharton Professor, New York Times bestselling author, Originals and Give and Take'This is the book I want to hand every manager I've ever worked with . . . Every chapter is filled with quotes, findings, and ideas that I want to post on Twitter and share with the world' ...

Why do carefully planned projects fail? Projects are affected, for good or ill, by the humans who undertake them. If the plan fails to take account of the psychology of managing people and the psychology of managing change there may be trouble ahead. Sharon De Mascia's Project Psychology uses human behaviour and emerging psychological models to provide an insight into the successful management of people in projects. By selecting the right team, facilitating a common vision and by gaining a...

Positive Psychology at Work brings the fields of positive psychology and appreciative inquiry together for the first time to provide leaders and change agents with a powerful new approach to achieving organizational excellence.Draws together positive psychology and appreciative inquiry in the context of leadership organizational challenges for the first timePresents academically rigorous and referenced material in a jargon-free, accessible mannerA...

This unique text is the first to explore leadership in the context of healthcare systems across Europe. It investigates leadership and management learning against the backdrop of increasing European parliamentary influence, the expansion of EU membership, and the increasing number of patients, staff, governments and healthcare employers viewing Europe as a single market for healthcare provision and employment.Written by leading authority Neil Goodwin, this timely book provides an a...

Think about the last time you tried to change someone’s mind about something important: a voter’s political beliefs; a customer’s favorite brand; a spouse’s decorating taste. Chances are you weren’t successful in shifting that person’s beliefs in any way. In his book, Changing Minds, Harvard psychologist Howard Gardner explains what happens during the course of changing a mind and offers ways to influence that process.Remember that we don’t change our minds overnight, it...