Fearless Change: Patterns for Introducing New Ideas
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| Rating | : | 4.39 (584 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0201741571 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 273 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2013-02-22 |
| Language | : | English |
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It takes too long. It's brutally tough to initiate, even harder to sustain. Mary Lynn and Linda have successfully used the pattern form to capture and present the recurring lessons of successful change efforts and have placed a powerful knowledge resource in the hands of their readers.”—Alan O'Callaghan, researcher, Software Technology Research Laboratory, De Montfort University, United Kingdom“The most difficult part of absorbing patterns, or any technology, into an organization is overcoming the people issues. These flexible patterns draw on the experiences of hundreds of leaders. In Fearless Change, Mary Lynn Manns and Linda Risi
One of those books where everything said seems pretty obvious, but by explicitly putting them together as S. Fraser One of those books where everything said seems pretty obvious, but by explicitly putting them together as patterns has materialized them in my head so that I can articulate them and thus notice and apply them. Interesting -- same thing can be said of the Design Patterns book, it wasn't that I hadn't used them before, but now I had a language to use around what I had already been doing, so that now I could notice it.. A great help for introducing change Bas Vodde Fearless Change is a catalogue of patterns for introducing change in a company. Personally I've been in the role of change agent for years and this book provided me many "ah-hah"s which you get from reading good patterns. Most of the patterns I've applied in the past. Now I realized it and I got a name for them, which makes me more able to reuse the patterns. Some of the patterns were new to me and I've applied them immediat. Kevin Goldsmith said Good as introduction for new change agents. For folks who are interested in driving change, or have been doing it without much mentorship, the patterns and examples presented here are a nice introduction to various tools. For those who are more experienced, there is some value in finding a common vocabulary around these techniques and it is a nice reminder of things that you may have internalized.
from Arizona State University.. Mary Lynn Manns, Ph.D., is a professor in the Department of Management and Accountancy at the University of North Carolina, Asheville. She holds a Ph.D. Now an independent consultant, she helped lead the introduction of patterns into AG Communication Systems in Phoenix, Arizona. She is well known for her many presentations on this topic.Linda Rising, Ph.D., is well known throughout the patterns community as the editor of <
We will take this comment as a tribute to our work because our goal was to identify tried and true practices, not just a collection of good ideas that may or may not work.The idea of documenting patterns for successful solutions to recurring problems was introduced by a building architect named Christopher Alexander. The patterns in this book are the result of years of documenting our observations, hearing from people who have introduced new ideas, reading a variety of views on the topics of change and influence, studying how change