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Organizational Transitions:
Managing Complex Change

Second Edition

Richard Beckhard, Richard Beckhard Associates,
and Reuben T. Harris, The Tom Peters Group

1987 0-201-10887-9 117 pp. Softcover

Published by Addison-Wesley Publishing Company

This updated second edition presents a refined approach and builds a general framework within which most organizational development programs can operate. The text emphasizes the strategies of planning and managing large scale organizational change dealing with the present, the future, and the transition from one to the other. It helps leaders cope with the challenges of managing current work, planning for the future, and making the transition.

Contents

• Preface
• Managing Complex Change
• The Demand System-Forces in the Environment
• Dynamics of Organizations-Where Change Occurs
• The Change Process: Why Change?
• Defining the Future State
• Assessing the Present-Benchmarks for Change
• Getting From Here to There: Transition Management
• A Case Study
• Commitment Planning & Strategies
• Managing Complexity

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