Developing change leaders : the principles and practices of change leadership development /

Implementing change is a major business challenge. Is your leadership up to the task? With change initiatives failing so frequently despite many books on the market addressing separately the topics of leadership and change management, Developing Change Leaders tackles in one concise volume the all-i...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Aitken, Paul
Other Authors: Higgs, Malcolm
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Amsterdam ; Boston : Elsevier/Butterworth-Heinemann, 2010
Edition:1st ed
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Table of Contents:
  • Cover13;
  • Developing Change Leaders: The Principles and Practices of Change Leadership Development
  • Copyright Page
  • Contents
  • Introduction
  • Part 1 The Contemporary Context for Developing Change Leadership
  • Introduction
  • Chapter 1 The Change Leadership Context
  • Introduction
  • Developments in our understanding of leadership
  • An emerging perspective on leadership
  • The significance of organizational context and culture
  • Chapter 2 The Challenge of Change
  • Introduction
  • Why is change so important and difficult?
  • Approaches to change and how change happens
  • Chapter 3 What Does It Take to Lead Change?
  • Introduction
  • Critical roles in a change process
  • Change leadership competencies
  • Change leadership practices
  • Part 2 How to Develop Change Leadership Capability
  • Introduction
  • Chapter 4 A Values Dialogue for Change Leaders
  • Introduction
  • The world of executive's personal values
  • Discovery of diverse executive's personal values
  • How change leaders can utilize values for change leadership?
  • Implications for the change leadership development community
  • Chapter 5 Building a Change Leadership Culture
  • Introduction
  • What is 'leadership culture'?
  • Components of leadership culture
  • What is transformational leadership culture
  • The power of role modeling in change leadership
  • Chapter 6 The Evolution of a Change Leader
  • Introduction
  • The context for learning
  • The learning process and developmental stages
  • Ten dynamic capabilities for change leaders
  • Chapter 7 Development Approaches
  • Introduction
  • Capabilities and techniques
  • Development cases
  • Case 1 Developing change leadership capability in a UK energy company
  • Case 2 'Future Leaders' at the UK land registry
  • Case 3 Leaders UK (National School of Government)
  • Case 4 Developing emerging leaders across New Zealand central government
  • Part 3 Organizational Considerations
  • Introduction
  • Chapter 8 Evaluating the Impact of Change Leadership Development
  • Introduction
  • Impact diagnostics
  • Chapter 9 Managing Change Leadership Talent
  • Introduction
  • The challenge of talent management
  • Implementing talent management
  • Building a talent pipeline
  • Who is responsible for talent management?
  • Chapter 10 A Framework for Developing 'Changing' Leadership Capability
  • Introduction
  • What do we need?
  • What do we have?
  • What else do we need to do?
  • Summary
  • Chapter 11 Concluding Remarks
  • Introduction
  • Forecasting twenty-first century change leadership roles
  • Looking ahead for change leadership development practitioners and researchers
  • How to find out more
  • Index
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