Leading Change

This is a practical book packed with real life examples, constructive advice and challenge. The content will make you think, smile and occasionally wince! I commend it to everyone fascinated by the real drivers of change in organisations - big, small, start up, mature and across sectors.

Paul Lawrence has used his unique background as businessman, author, coach and consultant to provide a practical approach to a new way of understanding how successful change really works.

What sets Leading Change apart from all of the the other publications that are so abundant on this topic, is the fact that it addresses change management via first hand accounts of real business leaders deep within the change trenches. These leaders all confronted extraordinary situations, across a variety of cultures and business sectors. In doing so it offers the reader a real look into the dynamic juxtaposition of insight and reflection, action and reaction, listening and involving, learning and coaching that is anything but academic, static or linear within an organization...especially when it comes to change.

Leading Change is the umpteenth book on change management but it treats it very differently from other books I have come across. Paul manages to make it very personal and thus recognisable. He shows the struggle that each and every change agent is going through and makes it clear there is no one answer. The book is almost a reversed version of the average textbook: it does not teach you the model and then try to explain it. It builds up 'the Emerging Change Model' step by step, chapter by chapter, taking the reader by the hand. It shows how all the elements are themselves subject to change and how they all influence each other. It's all based on actual change stories, successes and failures. The use of anecdotes makes it an easy read and there is a powerful, recognisable insight on every page.The most insightful yet down-to-earth book on change I have read in a long while!

Leading Change treats change management very differently from the many other books I have come across on the subject. It builds up the Emerging Change Model step by step, chapter by chapter, showing how all the elements in the model are subject to change and how they influence each other. The most insightful yet down-to-earth book on change I have read in a long while.