Dance of Change The Challenges to Sustaining Momentum in a Learning Organization

Name: Dance of Change The Challenges to Sustaining Momentum in a Learning Organization
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Authors: Peter M. Senge, Charlotte Roberts, Richard B. Ross, Bryan Smith, George Roth

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Since Peter Senge published his groundbreaking book The Fifth Discipline, he and his associates have frequently been asked by the business community: "How do we go beyond the first steps of corporate change? How do we sustain momentum?" They know that companies and organizations cannot thrive today without learning to adapt their attitudes and practices. But companies that establish change initiatives discover, after initial success, that even the most promising efforts to transform or revitalize organizations—despite interest, resources, and compelling business results—can fail to sustain themselves over time. That's because organizations have complex, well-developed immune systems, aimed… at preserving the status quo. Now, drawing upon new theories about leadership and the long-term success of change initiatives, and based upon twenty-five years of experience building learning organizations, the authors of The Fifth Discipline Fieldbook show how to accelerate success and avoid the obstacles that can stall momentum. The Dance of Change, written for managers and executives at every level of an organization, reveals how business leaders can work together to anticipate the challenges that profound change will ultimately force the organization to face. Then, in a down-to-earth and compellingly clear format, readers will learn how to build the personal and organizational capabilities needed to meet those challenges. These challenges are not imposed from the outside; they are the product of assumptions and practices that people take for granted—an inherent, natural part of the processes of change. And they can stop innovation cold, unless managers at all levels learn to anticipate them and recognize the hidden rewards in each challenge, and the potential to spur further growth. Within the frequently encountered challenge of "Not Enough Time," for example—the lack of control over time available for innovation and learning initiatives—lies a valuable opportunity to reframe the way people organize their workplaces. This book identifies universal challenges that organizations ultimately find themselves confronting, including the challenge of "Fear and Anxiety"; the need to diffuse learning across organizational boundaries; the ways in which assumptions built in to corporate measurement systems can handcuff learning initiatives; and the almost unavoidable misunderstandings between "true believers" and nonbelievers in a company. Filled with individual and team exercises, in-depth accounts of sustaining learning initiatives by managers and leaders in the field, and well-tested practical advice, The Dance of Change provides an insider's perspective on implementing learning and change initiatives at such corporations as British Petroleum, Chrysler, Dupont, Ford, General Electric, Harley-Davidson, Hewlett-Packard, Mitsubishi Electric, Royal DutchShell, Shell Oil Company, Toyota, the United States Army, and Xerox. It offers crucial advice for line-level managers, executive leaders, internal networkers, educators, and others who are struggling to put change initiatives into practice.

Book details

List price: $40.00
Publisher: Crown/Archetype
Publication date: 3/16/1999
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 608
Size: 7.32" wide x 8.96" long x 1.25" tall
Weight: 2.244
Language: English



Getting Started



Orientation



Toward an Atlas of Organizational Change



The Life Cycle of Typical Change Initiatives



The Leadership of Profound Change



The Challenges of Profound Change



How to Read This Book



Generating Profound Change



Establishing a Pilot Group



The Growth Processes of Profound Change



Rethinking Time



Limits Ahead


The Challenges of Initiating



Not Enough Time



The Challenge



Culture Change at General Electric



Five Ways to Create Time



Minimal Intervention



Barking and Nonbarking Dogs



Managing a Practice Field



Integrating Work and Personal Life ... in Practice



No Help (Coaching and Support)



The Challenge



From Golf to Polo



A Cadre of Coaches



Climbing Out of the Muck



Precepts for Mentors



A Strategy for Building Competence



Five Kinds of Systems Thinking



Aikido for Change Leaders



Music, Listening, and Freedom



Not Relevant



The Challenge



The Case for Change at Visteon



"What Are We Doing This For?"



A Light Touch and a Long View



The Pinecone Strategy



Learning What We're Worth



Open-Book Management



After Fixing the Crisis



The History Map



Four Futures for a Change Initiative



Practicing Relevance



Walking the Talk



The Challenge



The Executive Leader's Perspective



How to "Walk the Talk" Without Falling Off a Cliff



"... As one of the first black engineers in South Africa ..."



"How Are We Hindering Our Management?"



Reflections for an Executive Leader


The Challenge of Sustaining Transformation



Fear and Anxiety



The Challenge



Gray Stamps



Unilateral Control



When Good People Do Terrible Things...



A Safe Place for "Not Knowing"



Heroic Modes



Unraveling the Knots from Your "Family of Origin"



Beyond "Winners and Losers"



Assessment and Measurement



The Challenge



Moving Upstream from Measurement



Measuring to Report...or to Learn?



Cracking the "Black Box" of a Learning Initiative Assessment



Performance Dashboards



True Believers and Nonbelievers



The Challenge



How to Set the Stage for a Change in Organizational Culture



Infectious Commitment



Heretical Tactics



The Perils of Shared Ideals


The Challenges of Redesigning and Rethinking



Governance



The Challenge



Community of Companies



Interdependence at Shell



From Control to Clarity



Visa International



"Learning Shareholders..."



Cultural Due Diligence



Redesigning an Airplane in Midflight



Diffusion



The Challenge



The Organizational Learning Cycle



BP's Pacesetter Network



The School for Managing



Bootstrap Principles



On-line Engagement



Learning Histories



A "World-Class" Reflective Practice Field



What Are "Communities of Practice"?



Watershed Events



Strategy and Purpose



The Challenge



Managing the Horizon



Asking Big Questions



Scenarios for Changing the World



Strategy as Conversation



Strategic Transformation at Royal Dutch/Shell



Sustainable Innovation



After the Rainforest



Electricity for All



Conscious Oversight


Endnotes



Leadership in the World of the Living



Acknowledgments



About the Authors



How to Get in Touch with the Creators of This Book


Index


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