Looking for the best Change Management books? Browse our list to find excellent book recommendations on the subject.
- HBR’s 10 Must Reads on Change Management (including featured article “Leading Change,” by John P. Kotter) (2011)
- Change Management: The People Side of Change (2012)
- Making Sense of Change Management: A Complete Guide to the Models, Tools and Techniques of Organizational Change (2015)
- The Science of Organizational Change: How Leaders Set Strategy, Change Behavior, and Create an Agile Culture (Leading Change in the Digital Age) (2019)
- Managing Transitions, 25th anniversary edition: Making the Most of Change (2017)
- Words That Change Minds: The 14 Patterns for Mastering the Language of Influence (2019)
- Lean Change Managment: Innovative Practices For Managing Organizational Change (2014)
- The Effective Change Manager’s Handbook: Essential Guidance to the Change Management Body of Knowledge (2014)
- Beyond Change Management: How to Achieve Breakthrough Results Through Conscious Change Leadership, Second Edition (2010)
- ADKAR: A Model for Change in Business, Government and our Community (2006)
- The Coaching Habit: Say Less, Ask More & Change the Way You Lead Forever (2016)
- Managing Change, Creativity and Innovation (2017)
- Managing Change in Organizations: A Practice Guide (2013)
- CHANGES: The Busy Professional’s Guide to Reducing Stress, Accomplishing Goals and Mastering Adaptability (2019)
HBR’s 10 Must Reads on Change Management (including featured article “Leading Change,” by John P. Kotter) (2011)
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Change Management: The People Side of Change (2012)
This book is a solid, research-based introduction to the discipline of change management, and a primer to catalyze change leadership and competency in managers and executives. Change Management is a practical look at what it means to manage the people side of change, and gives the reader insight into best practices in this area.
Making Sense of Change Management: A Complete Guide to the Models, Tools and Techniques of Organizational Change (2015)
Making Sense of Change Management is the best-selling classic text, providing a thorough overview of the subject of change for both students and professionals. Along with explaining the theory and practice of change management and comprehensively covering the models, tools, and techniques of successful change management, this completely revised and updated fourth edition includes more international examples and case studies throughout the book. The chapter on cultural change has been…
The Science of Organizational Change: How Leaders Set Strategy, Change Behavior, and Create an Agile Culture (Leading Change in the Digital Age) (2019)
Leaders need guidance on change grounded in the latest science, not 20th-century myths.
Managing Transitions, 25th anniversary edition: Making the Most of Change (2017)
The business world is constantly transforming. When restructures, mergers, bankruptcies, and layoffs hit the workplace, employees and managers naturally find the resulting situational shifts to be challenging. But the psychological transitions that accompany them are even more stressful. Organizational transitions affect people; it is always people, rather than a company, who have to embrace a new situation and carry out the corresponding change.
Words That Change Minds: The 14 Patterns for Mastering the Language of Influence (2019)
Do you work and live with people who are hard to convince? Who dismiss ideas before even thinking about them? Do you want to know how to influence people, without being manipulative? Want to find out how people get motivated, make decisions, to be more persuasive with everyone? Have you ever felt like you were talking to a wall? Well, that’s a very accurate description of what’s happening when 2 people are communicating!
Lean Change Managment: Innovative Practices For Managing Organizational Change (2014)
This book will help you implement successful change and . The book will do that through examples of how innovative practices can dramatically improve the success of change programs. These practices combine ideas from the Agile, Lean Startup, change management, organizational development and psychology communities.
The Effective Change Manager’s Handbook: Essential Guidance to the Change Management Body of Knowledge (2014)
The Effective Change Manager’s Handbook is explicitly designed to help practitioners, employers and academics define and practice change management successfully and to develop change management maturity within their organization.
Beyond Change Management: How to Achieve Breakthrough Results Through Conscious Change Leadership, Second Edition (2010)
“With this extensively upgraded second edition, Dean Anderson and Linda Ackerman Anderson solidify their status as the leading authorities on change leadership and organizational transformation.
ADKAR: A Model for Change in Business, Government and our Community (2006)
Why do some changes fail while others succeed? How can you make sense of the many tools and approaches for managing change? How can you lead change successfully, both in your personal life and professional career? After more than 14 years of research with corporate change, the ADKAR model has emerged as a holistic approach that brings together the collection of change management work into a simple, results oriented model.
The Coaching Habit: Say Less, Ask More & Change the Way You Lead Forever (2016)
In Michael Bungay Stanier's The Coaching Habit, coaching becomes a regular, informal part of your day so managers and their teams can work less hard and have more impact. Drawing on years of experience training more than 10,000 busy managers from around the globe in practical, everyday coaching skills, Bungay Stanier reveals how to unlock your peoples' potential.
Managing Change, Creativity and Innovation (2017)
A fresh approach to managing organizational change by looking at it as complex, dynamic, and messy as opposed to a series of neat, linear stages and processes leading to success. Key to the approach is the idea that change, creativity and innovation all overlap and interconnect rather than being three separate areas of study and that managing the three together is central to organizations having the competitive edge in developing new technologies and techniques, products and services.
Managing Change in Organizations: A Practice Guide (2013)
Managing Change in Organizations: A Practice Guide is unique in that it integrates two traditionally disparate world views on managing change: organizational development/human resources and portfolio/program/project management. By bringing these together, professionals from both worlds can use project management approaches to effectively create and manage change.
CHANGES: The Busy Professional’s Guide to Reducing Stress, Accomplishing Goals and Mastering Adaptability (2019)
Why do people struggle with creating the changes they say they want? With over a decade of work with thousands of clients in the fields of organizational consulting, executive coaching and psychotherapy, author Michael Diettrich-Chastain reveals the seven life dimensions that impact our ability to make professional and personal changesas well as why we succeed at making certain changes and fail at others.
Best Change Management Books Everyone Should Read
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Climate Change and Microbiome Dynamics: Carbon Cycle Feedbacks
Author(s): Javid Ahmad Parray
ID: 3568888, Publisher: Springer, Year: 2023, Size: 9 Mb, Format: pdf
Project Management: Leading Change in the Age of Complexity
Author(s): Edoardo Favari
ID: 3628323, Publisher: Springer, Year: 2023, Size: 3 Mb, Format: pdf
Quick Guide Change Management for all Cases: What Case Studies Teach Us
Author(s): Thomas Lauer
ID: 3641031, Publisher: Springer Gabler, Year: 2023, Size: 2 Mb, Format: pdf
Please note that this booklist is not absolute. Some books are absolutely hot items according to Los Angeles Times, others are composed by unknown authors. On top of that, you can always find additional tutorials and courses on Coursera, Udemy or edX, for example. Are there any other relevant resources you could recommend? Drop a comment if you have any feedback on the list.