Compleat Leader: Change Management

Change is permanent. Change can be opportunity, progress and growth. It can also mean instability, upheaval and disorientation. The management of change—a process for managing the people-side of change—is multifaceted. For organizations, change management is a balanced, structured approach to transitions that move an institution from its present state to a desired future. 

• Must Reads: Managing Change
• Good to Great: Why Some Companies Make the Leap...and Others Don't
• Good to Great and the Social Sectors: Why Business Thinking Is Not the Answer
• Leading Change: Why Transformation Efforts Fail
• Related Materials Under Other Topics

Must Reads

resources compiled by National Arts Strategies and the Getty Leadership Institute

Must Reads resources on managing change

Good to Great: Why Some Companies Make the Leap...and Others Don't

By Jim Collins

Book abstract
(Link takes you to publisher's website.)

Good to Great and the Social Sectors: Why Business Thinking Is Not the Answer

By Jim Collins

Article abstract
(Link takes you to publisher's website.)

Leading Change: Why Transformation Efforts Fail

By John Kotter

Harvard Business Online abstract and ordering information
(Link takes you to publisher's website.)

Related Materials Under Other Topics

• Linking Strategic Vision and Managerial Action: A Framework and Techniques for Strategy Implementation, by John C. Camillus
• Other Must Reads resources from National Arts Strategies and the Getty Leadership Institute