Mastering the Challenges of Change: Strategies for Each Stage in Your Organization's Life Cycle - Hardcover

Thompson, Leroy

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0814402186 ISBN 13: 9780814402184

Publisher: Amacom Books, 1994

Synopsis

In this practical book, management consultant LeRoy Thompson, Jr., shows how to understand the five "life cycle" changes of organizations and manage each one most effectively. You can use his ideas as a general approach to change or to enhance specific initiatives such as TQM, teamwork, and employee empowerment. You'll get illuminating insights into how dozens of organizations are managing change well, including Armor All Products, Compaq, McDonald's, Saturn, and nonprofits such as Girl Scouts of America and the Charlottesville (Va.) Public School system.
Here's a quick look at the five stages and the related issues this book will help you address: 1. The Emerging Stage. Is your organization developing resources for growth? Do you have a clear focus and direction for the future? 2. The Expanding Stage. Has your primary goal shifted to return on investment? Are you developing the effective processes and systems needed for growth? 3. The Maturity Stage. Are your key products and services in place? Have you established market position? Are you attracting and holding customers? 4. The Entrenched Stage. Are you innovating? If not, are you stagnating? How can you find new opportunities for creativity? 5. The Complex Stage. What role does diversification play in your growth plans? How can you encourage yourself and your employees to challenge the historic assumptions that may be holding you back?
At each stage Thompson helps you develop the skills of a change leader, even if you're not part of top management. He also shows you how to size up your organization's culture and tailor your strategies to fit - because your efforts are doomed if they don't!
Best of all, you can put these strategies into operation almost immediately. Without minimizing the complexity of change management issues, Thompson helps you analyze your situation quickly and get right to the business at hand.

About this title

About the Author

LeRoy Thompson, Jr., is president and CEO of Top Management Assistance (Springfield, Va.), a management consulting firm to major corporations and government agencies.

From Publishers Weekly

Thompson, CEO of a management consulting firm, here addresses the substantive leadership issue: How can a manager plan for, confront and manage change? Providing the reader with a "macro" view, the author traces a company's evolution through emergence, expansion, maturation, entrenchment and complexity, and discusses the challenges of change in each stage. Thompson's observations on customers, industrial change and strategizing are acute, as are his thoughts on cultural issues. Case studies (e.g., Lloyds of London, Kodak, McDonald's) supplement his analyses and further illustrate his arguments regarding teamwork, creating a quality culture and mastering change. Newbridge Executive Program Book Club alternate.
Copyright 1994 Reed Business Information, Inc.

Edition details

• Publisher: Amacom Books
• Publication date: 1994
• ISBN 10: 0814402186
• ISBN 13: 9780814402184
• Binding: Hardcover
• Language: English
• Number of pages: 176