Leading Strategic Change: Breaking Through the Brain Barrier by J. Stewart Black

Product Description


Of organizations that seek strategic change, 70% fail. In Leading Strategic Change,now in paperback, leading consultants J. Stewart Black and Hal B. Gregersen examine the core problem: organizations fail to change because individuals fail to change. Black and Gregersen identify the "brain barriers" that keep strategic change from success--failure to see, failure to move, and failure to finish--and offer a start-to-finish strategy for helping others change how they view their goals and the steps they must take to achieve them. This book systematically shows you how to implement the single change that makes all the others possible: redirecting individuals' ideas and expectations to be aligned with the new direction of the company.
Product Details
Amazon Sales Rank: #61035 in Books
Published on: 2003-07-03
Number of items: 1
Binding: Paperback
224 pages
Editorial Reviews

Stephen R. Covey, author of
"Every executive in search of strategic change should examine Black and Gregersen's innovative approach to... achieve breakthrough strategic change."

J.W. Marriott, Jr., Chairman and CEO, Marriott International, Inc.
"For any executive this is an excellent roadmap for leading strategic change!"

Dave Ulrich, author of
"Few things add greater value than effectively leading strategic change. Few books show you how to do it better..."
Customer Reviews

Informative and actionable guide to engaging your team in change initiatives
With a wonderful presentation format and very engaging writing style, this book informs and guides leaders who want to roll out change initiatives in their organizations. Critically, it provides information on the most important steps to take, how to build momentum, and the variety of issues that prevent your desired change from happening. This book will prove most useful when there's a good idea, someone wants to champion it, you (as the leader) want it to happen, and you need to know what to do next.

The only real thing that I'd like to have seen was a few more examples of real-world cases where change failed surprisingly due to not following the steps. Sometimes knowing the smoke signals to look for is important as knowing the success metrics to track.

Narrow Focus
Interesting, but the focus on the organization is missing. We should not confuse management development with organization development (or vice versa).

Great book, plus...
This is a great book. I recommend it in addition to "Strategic Organizational Change" by Beitler.

Black & Gregersen focus on the management development level. Beitler focuses on the organization development level.

They make a great combo!

Charles "Chuck" Lowell