Change Management Books

Authors: Stacy Aaron & Kate Nelson
Publisher: CornerStone Leadership Institute

From Change Guides Website: "If organizations want to make effective change, they need to recognize and deal with the eight constants, the eight undeniable truths about change. In achieving any type of change, these eight constants can't be avoided, but we can work with them, mitigate their impact and use them to our advantage."

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Authors: Stacy Aaron & Kate Nelson
Publisher: CornerStone Leadership Institute

This tactical, hands-on guide will lead you through the process from planning for a change through sustaining new ways in your organization. The Change Management Pocket Guide provides 27 valuable change management tools that can be easily customized for any organization. These tools are detailed, flexible, and scalable. Many can be used throughout the project or with different audiences.

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Author: OGC
Publisher: Stationery Office

This new guidance from OGC (published in Feb 2011) looks at portfolio management; It will help you make the right investment decisions with regards to what projects and programmes (change initiatives) you should buy for your organisation, i.e. those that will contribute most to your strategy. MoP will also help you make sure those investments actually deliver the bang you were promised for the buck you invested.

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Author: Pat Durbin & Terry Doerscher
Publisher: Greenleaf Book Group Press

This is the first book to show companies how to unify the portfolio management process. While hundreds of books have been written about various portions of this system, this is the first book to synthesise all the information into one definitive treatment and expand the scope of project portfolio management to company - wide applications.

Author: David Firth
Publisher: Capstone

Smart have a whole series of books on different subjects - all well written and informative. This book looks at change - in organisations and in individuals.

Authors: H. James Harrington, Daryl L. Conner, Nicolas S. Horney
Publisher: McGraw-Hill Inc.

In your projects have you ever been faced with resistance to change? Interesting book to have to hand and dip into when stuck or want to see other ideas at whatever stage of the project you are at. A must read If you are involved in project management and want to understand how change management ideas might compliment what you as a project manager are trying to achieve. (A handy CD-ROM is available with some versions.)

Author: John P. Kotter
Publisher: Harvard Business School Press

This is perhaps the best (and easiest to read) book on change management that has ever been written. Kotter sets out an eight stage process that organisations need to follow to reap the benefits of transformational change, including Establishing a Sense of Urgency, Creating the Guiding Coalition and Developing a Vision and Strategy, to name a few.

Author: APM Governance of Project Management SIG
Publisher: APM

Undertaken by members of both APM's Governance of Project Management Specific Interest Group, board members & stakeholders alike can use this guide to better appreciate the best practices for oversight of project management in their business.

Author: Eddie Obeng
Publisher: Financial Times/ Prentice Hall

Obeng helps you diagnose your project and identify the types of issues you are facing. It provides you with the methods, tools and framework you need to get your projects implemented. Written from your point of view, it accepts that your life is already busy and pulls out the core which yields big results.

Author: Mike Watson
Publisher: Project Manager Today

He covers all the essential skills of managing smaller projects. From project start-up, to managing risk, quality, and change, through to controlling the project and implementing a simple control system, Mike Watson cuts through the jargon of project management.

Author: Duncan Bury, Jane Buick
Publisher: Management Books 2000 Ltd.

Project Managers who have been involved in organizational change initiatives may realize some of the deficiencies of the traditional approach to change in the fast pacing and evolving business environment of the 21_^st century. Changes are difficult, slow, uncertain, and often regress to the initial state or remain only on paper.

Authors: David Williams, Tim Parr
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan

Conflicting views on this book - depends on what kind of information you're specifically looking for. Many large scale projects are delivered over schedule and over budget. While being based around a set of techniques, this book describes an approach to programme management that outlines the skills and capabilities that organisations need to develop in order to manage change programmes effectively.