Description
Book SynopsisA huge amount of change initiatives fail. Based on a combination of 4 years rigorous research and practical application of the emerging findings, the book explores the dilemmas related to the growing need for change and the difficulty in making change work.
Trade Review"…this book will enable organisations to make substantial performance improvements in change leadership." (
Government Opportunities, March 2008)
"Rowland and Higgs argue that what leaders do determines half of change implementation success." (Gulf Business, October 2008)
Table of ContentsForeword vii
Acknowledgments xi
1 Introduction 1
Part I Defining Changing Leadership 15
2 Is change changing? 17
3 Are leaders leading? 57
4 Changing leadership – a framework 95
Part II Seeing Changing Leadership 133
5 Attractor – creating magnetic energy 139
6 Edge and tension – amplifies disturbance 173
7 Container – provides holding structure 207
8 Transforming Space – creates movement 241
Part III Working With Changing Leadership 275
9 Linking Changing Leadership 281
10 Developing Changing Leadership 321
11 Where next? 359
Recommended reading list 367
Index 369
