Leading Transformational Change: Working With Uncertainty and Navigational Principles

Leading Transformational Change: Working with Uncertainty and Navigational Principles offers an examination of how best to manage organisational change in tumultuous times. Using the metaphor of ‘navigating in uncertain waters’, the book is a unique and accessible introduction to the area of leading and managing change. Readers are equipped with tools such as practical exercises and opportunities to reflect, allowing them to assess and enact positive change. Stories and real-life examples from the sea offer lively ways to apply theory to practice.

The authors examine why so often transformational change fails and how to break free of these negative patterns of behaviour. The chapters provide a deep understanding of navigational principles and step by step show how to apply this understanding to various contexts of change.

Topics cover situational analysis, best managerial practice, planning, leading change, and unexpected events. Student learning is supported and reinforced with in-text reflections, discussion questions, and learning checks.

Chris Lever works through consultancy, coaching training, and writing. Fundamentally, he helps people navigate familiar, unfamiliar, and the uncharted waters of a fluid world in motion.

Lebene Soga is a professor of entrepreneurship and management practice at Leeds Business School, Leeds Beckett University, UK.

Yemisi Bolade-Ogunfodun is an associate professor in organisational behaviour at the Global Business School for Health, University College London, UK.