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How do today's most outstanding executives
inspire change throughout their organizations? What makes
them effective leaders, driven to champion change? This
compelling guide offers managers a rare, behind-the-scenes
glimpse into real-world change strategies successfully put
into practice by corporate leaders. Top management consultant
David Nadler reveals the experiences and insights of the
CEOs and key managers he has advised over the course of
twenty years. In Champions of Change he combines
their applied visions into a clear, common-sense approach
to initiating, designing, and implementing organizational
change.
Drawing on the personal experiences he and
his colleagues at Delta Consulting Group have had with companies
as varied as Lucent Technologies, Sun Microsystems, Xerox
Corporation, Corning, Chase Manhattan, and Kaiser Permanente,
Nadler offers organizational leaders a coherent approach
that has been tested, refined, and tested again in the marketplace.
He candidly reveals why corporate change must be driven
by top executives and vividly illustrates how they do it.
In his highly readable style, Nadler presents
the core principles shared by successful change managers:
appropriate involvement, committed leadership, valid information,
informed choices, and integrated change. He clearly demonstrates
how effective leaders actively involve key managers and
articulate visions and goals that address the basic values
and highest aspirations of people throughout the organization.
Without exception, he says, they support sharing and questioning
information at all levels, and act with the understanding
that the best decisions emerge from full and open consideration
of the widest range of alternatives.
Champions of Change gives leaders
and managers a new repertoire of concepts, ideas, tools,
and techniques for understanding the dynamics of change
and managing it within their own area of responsibility.
This essential guide offers an unprecedented opportunity
to learn the lessons of the champions of change --those
CEOs who lead change themselves and then provide support
for others who dare to challenge the status quo.
David A. Nadler is one of the nation's
leading consultants and advisors to corporate executives
on the subjects of organizational architecture and organizational
change. Since 1980, he has served as CEO of the Delta Consulting
Group, Inc. Prior to that, he served on the faculty of the
Graduate School of Business at Columbia University. Nadler
has authored or edited more than a dozen books on management,
organizational change, and leadership, including Organizational
Architecture (1992), Discontinuous Change (1994)
and Executive Teams (1997), all from Jossey-Bass,
and Competing by Design (1997).
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