The Change Monster - Tapa dura

Exploring the human side of corporate mergers, acquisitions, and change, this business management handbook discusses the human issues linked to the five stages of change--stagnation, anticipation, implementation, determination, and fruition--and examines the social, emotional, and behavioral reactions of people involved in corporate developments. 25,000 first printing.

original, and powerful look at corporate change―mergers, reorganizations, transformations―and why it succeeds or fails.

The Change Monster is the first book on the central issue that blows so many change efforts out of the water: the human interactions and emotional dynamics of the people involved. It is also an unusual book about business, one written from the heart as well as the head.

The Change Monster is a tough-minded but compassionate book about leadership when major changes are demanded: after a merger, when profits are falling or markets being lost. It is also about the discipline and kindness it takes to get the people who report to and depend on you to confront their fears and move on to a new agenda, strategy, or company.

The Change Monster is a reminder, through stories and anecdotes, of the essentials of the heart and mind that provide the basis for leadership. It also offers warnings that probab