EPIC Change: How to Lead Change in the Global Age - Tapa dura

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Timothy R. Clark is founder and chairman of TR Clark Associates, LLC, an international consulting and training organization that specializes in organizational change, leadership development, and strategy. He advises leaders and organizations around the world, helping them navigate change and develop the competencies they need to compete in the global age.

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Praise for EPIC Change

"This book, born of solid research and extensive consulting experience, convincingly shows that the new global forces of today represent the new challenge, demanding a new response, which every leader, every organization, and every culture must be transformed into. Clark's analysis surrounding the leadership of the systems approach to the four EPIC stages is comprehensive, immensely practical, engaging, and transforming of the culture at each stage in making the new strategies and initiatives work. Absolutely brilliant material!"
Stephen R. Covey, author, The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People

"Dr. Clark's EPIC Change is a neo-classic.?It is a marvelous synthesis and extension of theory and practice about individual and organizational change. The steps of Evaluation, Preparation, Implementation, and Consolidation offer a road map for successful change. The book is filled with ideas, tools, and examples that will guide any manager through the demands of making change happen."
Dave Ulrich, professor, University of Michigan; partner, the RBL Group

"Only rarely does someone who has something profound to say know how to say it in a way that is both engaging and understandable no matter the complexity of the topic. Dr. Clark possesses this rare skill and much to our advantage turns it on the challenge of creating EPIC change. If you're facing a complex, turbulent, and upending world and you most certainly are this book is for you."
Kerry Patterson, author, Crucial Conversations

"A must-read for all leaders Tim narrows down the success criteria of leading an organization through change, which, in today's environment, means any organization. His examples and guidance have helped our organization go successfully through some pretty dramatic changes keeping an eye on Tim's recommendations has been invaluable in ensuring success and has been a road map for the members of our team."
Olivier Poirot, CEO, Accor North America and Motel 6

"EPIC Change calls attention to the main role of a leader, which is to lead change, and it provides an effective process for performing this role."
Regina Camargo, president, Across Recrusos, São Paulo, Brazil

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EPIC Change

Accelerated change and relentless competition have become permanent characteristics of the global age. The need for all organizations to respond to adaptive challenge is unprecedented. However, leading change, especially large-scale change, is the most formidable challenge in all of leadership.

Any organization's ability to adapt and adjust to shifting demands is really a function of its leaders' capacity to summon and redirect institutional will. EPIC Change is the hands-on resource written for any leader who is charged to lead change in a turbulent environment. Based on a landmark study of fifty-three cases of large-scale organizational change, international thought leader and business consultant Timothy R. Clark outlines his path-breaking EPIC Change approach, which has been successfully field-tested by leaders around the world. Clark provides a road map for leaders to learn how to pull energy out of an organization in order to respond to disruptive outside forces. The approach combines both strategic and tactical tools to help leaders at all levels get comfortable with uncertainty, live on the edge of chaos, and sustain competitive advantage in the face of endless dynamic changes.

The EPIC (Evaluate, Prepare, Implement, and Consolidate) approach for change management draws on the research-based "power curve of change." As Clark explains, change fails less often for poor strategy or technical difficulty. Rather, it is a leader's inability to draw out the discretionary efforts of people that usually signals failure. The EPIC approach teaches leaders the critical points of leverage for energy management within an organization and offers a comprehensive guide to change leadership arguably the most critical competency of the twenty-first century.