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Change without pain : how managers can overcome initiative overload, organizational choas, and employee burnout
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Boston, Mass. : Harvard Business School Press, 2004
ISBN:
9781578518272

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Summary

Outlining a positive approach to change called creative recombination, this title identifies five key elements that every company has - people, structures, culture, processes, and networks. It offers a toolkit of techniques for recombining, reusing, and redeploying these resources to achieve cost-efficient, less painful organizational change.


Author Notes

Eric Abrahamson is Professor of Management at Columbia Business School in New York City and an internationally recognized expert on change management.


Table of Contents

Acknowledgmentsp. ix
Introductionp. xi
1 Organizational Change and Its Discontentsp. 1
2 Creative Recombinationp. 21
3 Redeploying Talent Rather Than Downsizingp. 39
4 Leveraging Social Networks Rather Than IT Networksp. 63
5 Reviving Values, Not Inventing Themp. 89
6 Salvaging Good Processes Rather Than Reengineering Themp. 113
7 Reusing Structures Rather Than Reorganizingp. 131
8 Large-Scale Recombinationp. 151
9 The Fine Art of Pacingp. 167
10 Becoming a Better Recombinerp. 189
Notesp. 207
Indexp. 213
About the Authorp. 219