The Heart of Change

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Introduction

Change is something very essential to accomplish your goal because to be efficient, effective and productive organizations need to adopt some changes. In order to bring those changes, corporate people analyze and bring their thoughts into actions especially when organizational change are more abundant, managing huge changes like technological changes, changes in infrastructure, mergers and acquisitions, new scenarios and approaches, cultural transformation and globalization. If the organization is adapting changes constantly, it will not only survive but will be ahead in the game. If one is not able to handle the reality then the circumstances will not be pleasant, and it may result in the downfall of organizations.

Changes and transformation is part of the world and with the passage of time it is necessary for people to adapt necessary changes. To make any transformation successful, there are many things that must be changed which includes procedures, organizational structure and operations, these are just the major parts along with all this the main thing that need to change are the behavior, something which have never been easy - the behavior of people.

The different thing about the burgeoning organizations, they always try to be one step ahead. They try to be aware about the opportunities and threats and exactly know how to grab it and how to avoid risks. Large-scale changes have always been complex in the organization. The book is all about the eight different stages that can lead to successful implementation and adoption of changes at large-scale and that are:

Increase Urgency.

Build the Guiding Team.

Get the Vision Right.

Communicate for Buy-In.

Empower Action.

Create Short-Term Wins.

Don't Let Up.

Make Change Stick.

The book has used stories to guide and train that how to adopt changes, and how to change the face of organizations according to the needs and requirements.

Discussion

This book summarizes of four hundred meticulous interviews from over one hundred and thirty companies with one thing in common that is managing change. It revolves around the eight stages that are essential for adopting change. The approach used is see, feel and change. The book demonstrates the importance of changes and in what ways change can help the organization in getting successful. Usually people that organizations, prefer are those who conform to organization's culture, especially the organization's cultural values and assumptions in order to adopt those changes successfully.

Eight Stages to Implement Successful Change

Increase Urgency

This stage is about those changes that are necessary to be taken, in their scuttle to make new strategies and procedures and implementing those things many companies pay no heed to this stage without a doubt close to 50% companies that are unsuccessful in making necessary change make their mistakes at the beginning. In many cases, leaders make mistakes, and they are not being able to implement changes and make their team accept those changes. As leaders may take too lightly that how difficult it is to impel people out of their comfort zones, or miscalculate how effectively they have previously performed, or simply not ...