Change Champion's Field Guide: Strategies and Tools for Leading Change in Your Organization

by Louis Carter

Nearly a decade later, leading change pioneers in the field have realigned to bring you the second edition of the Change Champion's Fieldguide.This thoroughly revised and updated edition of the Change Champion's Field Guide is filled with the information, tools, and strategies needed to implement a best practice change or leadership development initiative where everyone wins. In forty-five chapters, the guide's contributors, widely acknowledged as the change champions and leaders in the fields of organizational change and leadership development, explore the competencies and practices that define an effective change leader. Change Champions such as Harrison Owen, Edgar Schein, Marv Weisbord, Sandra Janoff, Mary Eggers, William Rothwell, Dave Ulrich, Marshall Goldsmith, Judith Katz, Peter Koestenbaum, Dick Axelrod, David Cooperrider, and scores of others provide their sage advice, practical applications, and examples of change methods that work.Change Champion's Field Guide examines the topic of leadership and change within four main topics including: Key elements of leading successful and results-driven changeTools, models, instruments, and strategies for leading changeCritical success and failure factorsTrends and research on innovation, change, and leadershipGuidelines on how to design, implement, and evaluate change and leadership initiativesFresh case studies that highlight leading companies who are implementing successful change in innovative and inspired ways.

834 pages, ebook

First published June 3, 2003

About the author

Louis Carter is CEO and President of Best Practice Institute, an association and management consulting firm specializing in helping organizations and C-suite senior executives achieve their market strategy through organization learning, action learning, and HR SaaS software.
He is the creator of bestpracticeinstitute.org, a social networking, learning and benchmarking platform providing immediate access to industry companies, on-demand learning and senior executives executives, alongside its skillrater.com, a next generation SaaS anytime 360-degree tool using social collaboration, a top HR Product of the year by Human Resources Executive Magazine. Author of nearly a dozen books on best practices and organizational leadership.
Published by Jossey Bass/John Wiley and Sons, they include Change Champions, Best Practices in Talent Management, Best Practices in Leadership Development and Organization Change and Leading the Global Workforce.