Although many organizations see the need to transform and to reinvent themselves, for far too many leaders, "change" and "failure" are virtual synonyms. In fact, most organizational change efforts fail. But that needn't be the case, and help is at hand. Leading Positive Organizational Change, an alternative way to think about organizational change and development, is a strategic, learnable discipline that can re-energize and re-imagine your enterprise, and release the potential for change - delivering a positive, creative future and breakthrough bottom-line results.
Written by an award-winning expert in positive organization development and change leadership, this book provides executives, change leaders, and change leadership teams with a step-by-step guide for collaboratively crafting and executing a change strategy that aligns with organizational objectives so as to fuel their future. With a strong science-backed and field-tested "how to" approach, and witha radical focus on organizational positivity, super-flexibility and renewal, collective design thinking and applied imagination, this highly practical book features:
A ToolBox of 30 powerful, imaginative (and time-saving!) tools for you to use in practicing leading positive organizational change and carrying through your change program - with example templates and worksheets, concise notes and ideas from numerous complex global projects.Lead-ins to each chapter that are a fundamental feature of the book, representing a springboard to a chapter and serving the purpose of awakening interest in the topic.Dialogic Reflection for Professional Team Development, at the start of each chapter, that enables you (and your team as a whole) to reflect on and discuss some thought-provoking questions, linking to the chapter and helping to contextualize your learning.Industry Snapshots that explore current issues and trends in one of the fastest-growing professions and industries - coaching and consulting.Windows on Practice that demonstrate how issues are applied in real-life business situations, offering a range of interesting topical illustrations of positive change leadership in practice, relating the core concepts of the book to real-world settings.Summary Propositions, at the end of each chapter, that recap and reinforce the key takeaways from the chapter.References to help you take your learning and development further.
Tkaczyk's engaging, reflective, task-based book equips the change leader and leadership teams with the skills needed to navigate chaos and the unexpected, to renew your business and create winning change. This action-based workbook can be used in a variety of business settings, among others, executive leadership team meetings, organization development and change consulting, design-led strategy retreats, human resource development consultancy, executive 1:1 and team coaching, leadership boot camps, design thinking workshops and sprints, innovation labs, and executive education and MBA courses - as a handy additional text in either an organization development and change or human resource management class. It can also be used in a flexible strategic transformation program - with the flow of the change execution process mapped within the context of a specific change initiative.
Written by an award-winning expert in positive organization development and change leadership, this book provides executives, change leaders, and change leadership teams with a step-by-step guide for collaboratively crafting and executing a change strategy that aligns with organizational objectives so as to fuel their future. With a strong science-backed and field-tested "how to" approach, and witha radical focus on organizational positivity, super-flexibility and renewal, collective design thinking and applied imagination, this highly practical book features:
A ToolBox of 30 powerful, imaginative (and time-saving!) tools for you to use in practicing leading positive organizational change and carrying through your change program - with example templates and worksheets, concise notes and ideas from numerous complex global projects.Lead-ins to each chapter that are a fundamental feature of the book, representing a springboard to a chapter and serving the purpose of awakening interest in the topic.Dialogic Reflection for Professional Team Development, at the start of each chapter, that enables you (and your team as a whole) to reflect on and discuss some thought-provoking questions, linking to the chapter and helping to contextualize your learning.Industry Snapshots that explore current issues and trends in one of the fastest-growing professions and industries - coaching and consulting.Windows on Practice that demonstrate how issues are applied in real-life business situations, offering a range of interesting topical illustrations of positive change leadership in practice, relating the core concepts of the book to real-world settings.Summary Propositions, at the end of each chapter, that recap and reinforce the key takeaways from the chapter.References to help you take your learning and development further.
Tkaczyk's engaging, reflective, task-based book equips the change leader and leadership teams with the skills needed to navigate chaos and the unexpected, to renew your business and create winning change. This action-based workbook can be used in a variety of business settings, among others, executive leadership team meetings, organization development and change consulting, design-led strategy retreats, human resource development consultancy, executive 1:1 and team coaching, leadership boot camps, design thinking workshops and sprints, innovation labs, and executive education and MBA courses - as a handy additional text in either an organization development and change or human resource management class. It can also be used in a flexible strategic transformation program - with the flow of the change execution process mapped within the context of a specific change initiative.
"Extreme weather events, oil spills, bank failures, massive tech shifts, cyber attacks and terrorist attacks, civil unrest, epidemics and pandemics, asset bubbles, fiscal crises, and energy price shocks. Organizations are operating in increasingly complex and turbulent worlds that require them to navigate chaos and the dynamics of change. Leveraging positive organizational energy, collective design thinking and strategic super-flexibility, Tkaczyk provides an alternative paradigm for organizational change and development. Energize-Redesign-Gel (ERG), human-centered and business-focused, is a powerful design-inspired strategy for re-imagining your business and leading positive organizational change. Filled with ready-to-use worksheets, tools and templates (You'll save hours of time!), it's ideal for executive and change leadership teams. A brilliant sourcebook!"
- MARSHALL GOLDSMITH, New York Times and Wall Street Journal best-selling author
"The model and practices in this book represent, perhaps better than any other resource today, the effective blending of sound theory and relevant practice on the topic of change leadership. The literature on this topic abounds with approaches taken from a dizzying array of perspectives, often based on limited practice and devoid of any deeper understandings. In the end, the anchor of good practice often comes from seeking out enduring principles and finding ways to make them useful. From this perspective, Tkaczyk's work continues to demonstrate the important contributions of the informed scholar-practitioner in the management and human resources fields. Certainly, the book will impact the actions of global managers seeking to lead the change process in organizations in more predictable and reliable ways."
- PROFESSOR RONALD L. JACOBS, Professor, Human Resource Development (University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign), Principal (RL Jacobs & Associates), former President of Academy of Human Resource Development (AHRD)
"Dr. Bart Tkaczyk continues to deliver yet another typically pragmatic message dealing with effective organizational development, based on sound academic foundations involving strategic management approaches coupled with positive leadership. What distinguishes this new offering, compared to writings by others employing similar managerial catchwords, is his ability to inject a dramatic input of practicality into the mode of delivering procedures for change that are original, workable, understandable and effective by means of a 'Toolbox Modality'. On this you have my word!"
- PROFESSOR PHILIP NECK, Schools of Business, Law and Economics (Southern Cross University, Gold Coast Campus, Australia), Former Head of Entrepreneurship and Management Development (the United Nations International Labour Organization HQ, Geneva, Switzerland)
"Too many books in this market are more theoretical, but the toolbox makes this one really good for someone wanting help in actually doing OD... A short book with good tools that could be used as a practical additional text in either an OD or HRM class."
- PROFESSOR PATRICK M. WRIGHT, Thomas C. Vandiver Bicentennial Chair in Business, Director of the Center for Executive Succession, Darla Moore School of Business, University of South Carolina
"This is a refreshing new angle on a topic that requires almost by definition energy and genuine enthusiasm. Dr. Bart Tkaczyk writes with feeling and an almost religious zeal but the material is all the more welcome for it. There are great insights here. Very definitely highly recommended!"
- PROFESSOR MOORAD CHOUDHRY, Former CEO of Habib Bank AG Zurich, Head of Treasury at Royal Bank of Scotland, Head of Treasury at Europe Arab Bank, Head of Treasury at KBC, Vice President at JPMorgan Chase Bank. Moorad is a Fellow of the Chartered Institute for Securities & Investment, and a Fellow of the London Institute of Banking & Finance
"In his change consulting and coaching, Dr. Bart Tkaczyk combines a positive, practical, strengths-based approach with his extensive international experience and perspective, and his impressive and ongoing academic achievements. The results are excellent. At our company, we practice what Dr. Tkaczyk evangelizes."
- ALEXANDER HEHMEYER, BA (Yale University), JD (University of California at Berkeley Law), Chairman of the Board, Advisor, and CFO at Rootstock Software
"Dr. Bart Tkaczyk lives and breathes positive Organization Development (OD). He's like a walking reference guide as well as an experienced practitioner and his eclectic mix of international work brings a uniquely different perspective. Throw out the old organizational change playbook-learn how to lead positive organizational change in a rigorous and creative way-the ERG way!"
- DR. CRAIG FERGUSSON, Chartered MCIPD, Former Associate Director, HR at Principles for Responsible Investment (PRI), an investor initiative in partnership with the United Nations Finance Initiative (UNEP FI) and the United Nations Global Compact
"ERG is well worth using." - PRINCE MICHAEL VON LIECHTENSTEIN
"As Professor of Leadership Communications at the Haas School of Business-I cannot speak highly enough of the ERG model created by Dr. Bart Tkaczyk. As a fellow Fulbright Scholar, I know for a fact that Dr. Tkaczyk has combined elements of positive leadership, organizational culture, organization development and executive coaching to provide corporations, organizations, and individuals with a methodology that enables them to achieve positive organizational change. Any client will find Dr. Tkaczyk's approach unique and customized to fit their needs. Clients can look forward to a personalized relationship with him and his team enabling them to realize their bold goals and winning aspirations."
- PROFESSOR MARK RITTENBERG (Haas School of Business, University of California Berkeley)
"Dr. Bart Tkaczyk is passionate about leadership and implementing change in a positive and impactful manner. If I could summarize him in three words it would be - energetic problem-solver."
- DEANNA ROCKEFELLER, MBA, Global Technology and Workforce Development Partnerships (Lockheed Martin)
- MARSHALL GOLDSMITH, New York Times and Wall Street Journal best-selling author
"The model and practices in this book represent, perhaps better than any other resource today, the effective blending of sound theory and relevant practice on the topic of change leadership. The literature on this topic abounds with approaches taken from a dizzying array of perspectives, often based on limited practice and devoid of any deeper understandings. In the end, the anchor of good practice often comes from seeking out enduring principles and finding ways to make them useful. From this perspective, Tkaczyk's work continues to demonstrate the important contributions of the informed scholar-practitioner in the management and human resources fields. Certainly, the book will impact the actions of global managers seeking to lead the change process in organizations in more predictable and reliable ways."
- PROFESSOR RONALD L. JACOBS, Professor, Human Resource Development (University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign), Principal (RL Jacobs & Associates), former President of Academy of Human Resource Development (AHRD)
"Dr. Bart Tkaczyk continues to deliver yet another typically pragmatic message dealing with effective organizational development, based on sound academic foundations involving strategic management approaches coupled with positive leadership. What distinguishes this new offering, compared to writings by others employing similar managerial catchwords, is his ability to inject a dramatic input of practicality into the mode of delivering procedures for change that are original, workable, understandable and effective by means of a 'Toolbox Modality'. On this you have my word!"
- PROFESSOR PHILIP NECK, Schools of Business, Law and Economics (Southern Cross University, Gold Coast Campus, Australia), Former Head of Entrepreneurship and Management Development (the United Nations International Labour Organization HQ, Geneva, Switzerland)
"Too many books in this market are more theoretical, but the toolbox makes this one really good for someone wanting help in actually doing OD... A short book with good tools that could be used as a practical additional text in either an OD or HRM class."
- PROFESSOR PATRICK M. WRIGHT, Thomas C. Vandiver Bicentennial Chair in Business, Director of the Center for Executive Succession, Darla Moore School of Business, University of South Carolina
"This is a refreshing new angle on a topic that requires almost by definition energy and genuine enthusiasm. Dr. Bart Tkaczyk writes with feeling and an almost religious zeal but the material is all the more welcome for it. There are great insights here. Very definitely highly recommended!"
- PROFESSOR MOORAD CHOUDHRY, Former CEO of Habib Bank AG Zurich, Head of Treasury at Royal Bank of Scotland, Head of Treasury at Europe Arab Bank, Head of Treasury at KBC, Vice President at JPMorgan Chase Bank. Moorad is a Fellow of the Chartered Institute for Securities & Investment, and a Fellow of the London Institute of Banking & Finance
"In his change consulting and coaching, Dr. Bart Tkaczyk combines a positive, practical, strengths-based approach with his extensive international experience and perspective, and his impressive and ongoing academic achievements. The results are excellent. At our company, we practice what Dr. Tkaczyk evangelizes."
- ALEXANDER HEHMEYER, BA (Yale University), JD (University of California at Berkeley Law), Chairman of the Board, Advisor, and CFO at Rootstock Software
"Dr. Bart Tkaczyk lives and breathes positive Organization Development (OD). He's like a walking reference guide as well as an experienced practitioner and his eclectic mix of international work brings a uniquely different perspective. Throw out the old organizational change playbook-learn how to lead positive organizational change in a rigorous and creative way-the ERG way!"
- DR. CRAIG FERGUSSON, Chartered MCIPD, Former Associate Director, HR at Principles for Responsible Investment (PRI), an investor initiative in partnership with the United Nations Finance Initiative (UNEP FI) and the United Nations Global Compact
"ERG is well worth using." - PRINCE MICHAEL VON LIECHTENSTEIN
"As Professor of Leadership Communications at the Haas School of Business-I cannot speak highly enough of the ERG model created by Dr. Bart Tkaczyk. As a fellow Fulbright Scholar, I know for a fact that Dr. Tkaczyk has combined elements of positive leadership, organizational culture, organization development and executive coaching to provide corporations, organizations, and individuals with a methodology that enables them to achieve positive organizational change. Any client will find Dr. Tkaczyk's approach unique and customized to fit their needs. Clients can look forward to a personalized relationship with him and his team enabling them to realize their bold goals and winning aspirations."
- PROFESSOR MARK RITTENBERG (Haas School of Business, University of California Berkeley)
"Dr. Bart Tkaczyk is passionate about leadership and implementing change in a positive and impactful manner. If I could summarize him in three words it would be - energetic problem-solver."
- DEANNA ROCKEFELLER, MBA, Global Technology and Workforce Development Partnerships (Lockheed Martin)