The Change Leader's Roadmap - 2nd Edition by Linda Ackerman Anderson & Dean Anderson (Paperback)

About the Book

"This second edition of the landmark book provides the most comprehensive guidance available for building transformational change strategy and designing and implementing successful transformation. Includes updated information on a wealth of topics including the critical path tasks and how to use CLR to change minds and cultures. The new edition also includes new activities, steps for changing capacity to capability, guiding principles to first phase, and advice for creating an organizational vision. This book is written for leaders, project managers, OD practitioners, change practitioners, and consultants."--

Book Synopsis

"This is the most complete change methodology we have found anywhere."
--Pete Fox, General Manager, Corporate Accounts, Microsoft US

In these turbulent times, competent change leadership is a most coveted leadership skill, and savvy change consultants are becoming trusted participants at the board table. For both leaders and consultants, knowing how to navigate the complexities of organization transformation is fast becoming the key to a successful career. This second edition of the author's landmark book is the king of all ?how-to? books on change. It provides a strategic overview of the author's proven change process methodology, as well as pragmatic guidance and tools for each key step in a complex transformational change process. The Change Leader's Roadmap is the most comprehensive guide available for building transformational change strategy and designing and implementing successful transformation.

• Based on thirty years of action research with Fortune 500 companies, government agencies, the military, and large non-profit global organizations.
• Outlines every key step in a transformational change process
• Provides worksheets, tools, case examples, and assessments that you can immediately apply to all types of change efforts
• Includes updated information on a wealth of topics including the critical path tasks and how to use the CLR to change minds and cultures
• The new edition also includes new activities, methods for building change capability, guiding principles for change, and advice for leading the human dynamics in change and creating an organizational vision.

This book is specifically written for leaders, project managers, OD practitioners, change practitioners, and consultants seeking greater change results.

From the Back Cover

Praise for the Second Edition of THE CHANGE LEADER'S ROADMAP

"Having applied this methodology for two years to manage change inside Microsoft, it has been instrumental in our ability to land change effectively, engage employees, and deliver results quickly. The Change Leader's Roadmap allows us to lead change with precision and minimal outside consulting, while at the same time growing change leadership capability internally. This is the most complete change methodology we have found anywhere."
--PETE FOX, general manager, Corporate Accounts, Microsoft US

"This newest edition of The Change Leader's Roadmap is an invaluable, comprehensive, and practical guide for envisioning an organization's desired future, designing the structures and practices necessary to make it happen, and implementing them effectively. The book describes the change process in nine distinct phases and outlines the activities and tasks that need to occur in each phase. It provides change leaders with an essential map for successfully traversing the complex and uncertain terrain of transformational change."
--THOMAS G. CUMMINGS, professor and chair, Department of Management and Organization, Marshall School of Business, University of Southern California

"This is the next best thing to having Dean, Linda, and the Being First team riding alongside your complex change initiative. The Change Leader's Roadmap breeds confidence in senior executive 'Champions' to guide not just a successful transformational change, but most importantly, to develop the mission critical organizational culture that will ensure unparalleled return on investment. Nothing I have seen in my thirty-two years of leading change comes close."
--JEFF MULLIGAN, former CEO, Common Wealth Credit Union; mayor, City of Lloydminster, Canada

"If you are one of the many who have earnestly tried to deliver a change initiative that did not meet your expectations . . . don't give up or do anything until you read this book. Dean and Linda are truly masters of change leadership. Reading this book is like having your own private coaches to hold your hand and show you the way to extraordinary results from change."
--BEVERLY KAYE, CEO, Career Systems International; author, Love 'em or Lose 'em: Getting Good People to Stay

"After implementing more than two thousand business strategy and operational excellence initiatives, we set out to find the best change methodology and toolbox in the world. The methodology this book describes is it! Study it thoroughly, because the thinking, process approach and pragmatic tools really work!"
--THOMAS FISCHER, director, COO, Valcon Management Consultants A/S, Copenhagen

About the Author

DEAN ANDERSON is co-founder and president of Being First, a change leadership development and transformational change consulting firm. He is a powerful speaker, writer, coach, consultant and master trainer. Anderson's client list includes Fortune 1000 companies such as Microsoft Corporation, PeaceHealth, Servus Credit Union, Canadian Park Service, Detroit Edison, DTE Energy, Exxon, Cincinnati Gas and Electric, City of Calgary, The Clorox Company, Holiday Inns, United Way of America, Home Savings of America, Levis Strauss, People's Gas, and RR Donnelley and Sons. He co-authored with Linda Ackerman Anderson of Beyond Change Management and Change Leader's Roadmap. He has published over 50 articles and has been featured in Business Week, and regularly publishes in Warren Bennis's Leadership Excellence periodical. He resides in Durango, CO.

LINDA ACKERMAN ANDERSON is a co-founder and vice-president of Being First. She specializes in planning for and facilitating transformational change in Fortune 1000 businesses and the military. Linda has spoken about her work on conscious transformation at national and international conferences, and is known as a thought leader and inspiring model of her message. During the past 25 years, her practice has focused on strategy development for major organizational change using Being First's renown nine-phase Change Leader's Roadmap. She resides in Durango, CO.