UPDATE (16th August): The first to come was Mr Geri McLeary, and he’s the winner. Check us out in the near future for other titles to review.
First come, first served time on the book review front arrives once again.
Through a generous contribution from ChangeGuides LLC, a change management consultancy and training group based in Cincinnati, we at Arras People will make available to one reviewer with a quick trigger finger The Eight Constants of Change: What Leaders Need to Know to Drive Change and Win (Kindle version only). The book is authored by Stacy Aaron and Kate Nelson of ChangeGuides, and covers 120 pages about the unavoidable realities of change management and their role in driving how well-adjusted a leader you can become. According to the Amazon Kindle description:
“Internationally known change agents Aaron and Nelson bring simplicity and order to a complex topic: organizational change. While change is not easy, this straightforward and fun read makes learning about change a breeze. The Eight Constants of Change is a practical, easy-to-use guide that can help you and your team produce immediate, tangible, real-world results. While change is not easy, this straightforward and fun read provides your management team a framework for working through change. By employing The Eight Constants of Change process, you’ll see improvement in employee morale, efficiency and your bottom line…beginning immediately.“
Perhaps you want to find out for yourself and put on your writing shoes. We’d love to get someone’s take on this book, written at a minimum of 500 words that gives a solid review of who would benefit from this book, it’s strengths & weaknesses, and a thorough assessment of the contribution it makes to greater PPM society as a whole, in a specific concentration or if it even does so to begin with. Book reviews for Arras People are often published either here at How to Manage a Camel, in our monthly newsletter Project Management Tipoffs and always in our Project Management Bookshop online.
Be the first commenter (you’ll have to leave an email address WHICH WILL NOT BE PUBLISHED BY US), and we’ll get in touch with you to get mailing details. Please do not write out mailing address details in the comments, we’ll get in touch and protect your anonymity on that front as well.
NOTE: The Change Guides LLC group have been kind enough to include The Change Management Pocket Guide as well, which we are happy to include in the package. But act quickly!
I’m interested in reviewing the book on change management. Has anyone else volunteered for this task before me? If not, then let me know and I’d be happy to read and then write a review about this book for you.
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