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Managing Transitions (25th anniversary edition): Making the Most of Change by [William Bridges, Susan Bridges]

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The business world is constantly transforming. When restructures, mergers, bankruptcies, and layoffs hit the workplace, employees and managers naturally find the resulting situational shifts to be challenging. But the psychological transitions that accompany them are even more stressful. Organizational transitions affect people; it is always people, rather than a company, who have to embrace a new situation and carry out the corresponding change.

As veteran business consultant William Bridges explains, transition is successful when employees have a purpose, a plan, and a part to play. This indispensable guide is now updated to reflect the challenges of today's ever-changing, always-on, and globally connected workplaces. Directed at managers on all rungs of the corporate ladder, this expanded edition of the classic bestseller provides practical, step-by-step strategies for minimizing disruptions and navigating uncertain times.

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Managing Transitions was timely when it first appeared twenty-five years ago. It is even more relevant now, at a time of unprecedented change and transition. The Bridges' deep understanding of how we experience the destabilizing forces of change--and their well-tested strategies for helping people through it--are more important than ever.
―Marshall Goldsmith, executive coach, business educator, and New York Times best-selling author, ranked top leadership thinker in the world by Thinkers50

A very wise book by a very wise man. This new edition is a celebration of William Bridges' original insights and practical guidance. With incisive contemporary cases and immediately useful applications, Susan Bridges masterfully reintroduces his exceptional work to a new generation.
―Jim Kouzes, coauthor of the best-selling The Leadership Challenge

Pick up any business book today and you will find words about unending change. What better guide for this unrelenting change than someone who has spent decades studying and reporting on how to survive it? If you need that guide--grab this book! William and Susan Bridges provide a road map to get through the most difficult work and life passages.
―Beverly Kaye, founder, Career Systems International; coauthor, Love 'Em or Lose 'Em

This richly updated new edition of the insightful Managing Transitions, filled with fresh and compelling examples, will be indispensable for leaders trying to guide their organizations through a period of unsettling change by managing the pain and uncertainty of the neutral zone. A timely update to a timeless book.
―Sally Helgesen, author, The Female Vision, The Web of Inclusion, The Female Advantage, and Thriving in 24/7

Managing change is a way of life in today's organizations, yet too often it's handled poorly. That's why Managing Transitions has become the essential guide on how to do it right. This new, revised edition deftly guides the reader through the organizational change process from start to finish, offering practical advice grounded in the authors' vast experience working with every size and type of organization. This book is must reading for every leader, manager, and employee undergoing a change process. Come to think of it, doesn't that include just about everyone?
―John Alexander, president, Leadership Horizons and former president and CEO of the Center for Creative Leadership

The most important idea I have encountered about organizational change is this: great change requires human transition. Decades of experience have proven that no magic set of steps, no financial incentive, no clever argument, and no threat can guarantee that a workforce will embrace change. People need real help in psychologically transitioning to a new situation--and that help is available here. In this fourth edition of Managing Transitions, William and Susan Bridges further expand their proven approach for helping people and organizations embrace real change.
―Walter McFarland, coauthor of Choosing Change and board chair emeritus for the Association for Talent

Managing Transitions is an essential guide for leaders and Chief People Officers who are navigating transitions and change within any organization. It is also a handbook in life for dealing with endings, new beginnings, and the disruptive 'neutral zone' in between. This book provides a pathway to human and authentic leadership and a way to gracefully navigate through the changes we all face in life.
―Gabrielle Toledano, EVP and chief talent officer, Electronic Arts, Inc.

Susan Bridges has done something generous, courageous, and brilliant with her updating of this classic and treasured book by Bill Bridges. In a collaborative process with the ideas of her late husband and business partner, she has made the language, concepts, and examples fresh again and available to a new audience. Bill's ideas have been fundamental to my own practice, and now they will inspire a new generation of leaders and change-makers to be wise, humane, and strategic, as they move their complex organizations through and increasingly challenging set of realities.
―B. Kim Barnes, CEO, Barnes & Conti Associates; author, Exercising Influence: Making Things Happen at Work, at Home, and in Your Community

Change is constant in today's global business environment, and yet change management continues to be a challenge for most organizations. That's why Managing Transitions remains an important book; it identifies the critically important role that understanding the human size of transition plays in effective change management. This updated edition is a must-read for anyone who wants to lead change successfully.
―Tony Bingham, president and CEO for the Association for Talent Development
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William Bridges, PhD, was an internationally known speaker, consultant, and author, and a preeminent authority on change. For decades, he showed thousands of individuals and hundreds of organizations how to deal more productively with transitions.

Susan Bridges, president of William Bridges Associates, consults with leaders and organizations facing unprecedented change. She provides insight and tools to capitalize on the potential for development and innovation during transition. She lives in Marin County, California.
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ASIN ‏ : ‎ B01L6SLKJO
Publisher ‏ : ‎ Da Capo Lifelong Books; 25th Anniversary ed. edition (Jan. 10 2017)
Language ‏ : ‎ English
File size ‏ : ‎ 8721 KB
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William Bridges is an internationally known speaker, author, and consultant who advises individuals and organizations in how to deal productively with change. His ten books include an expanded third edition of his best-seller, Managing Transitions (2009), and the updated second edition of Transitions (2004), which together have sold over one million copies. Before that he published The Way of Transition (2000), a partly autobiographical study of coming to terms with profound changes in his own life and transforming them into times of self-renewal. He published Creating You & Co., a handbook for creating a work-life that capitalizes on today's frequent and disruptive changes, and the ground-breaking Jobshift.
For three decades, he has guided thousands of individuals and hundreds of organizations through the maze of the transitions that accompany change. He focuses on the Transition, or psychological reorientation, people must go through to come to terms with changes in their lives. His three-phase model of Endings, Neutral Zone and New Beginnings is widely known. The professional seminars that he launched in 1988 have now certified more than 5,000 managers, trainers and consultants worldwide to conduct Transition Management programs. His later work has focused on bringing the principles of Transition Management into the non-profit world. He has been a frequent keynote speaker at conferences and corporate meetings in the United States and abroad.
Educated originally in the humanities at Harvard, Columbia, and Brown Universities, he was (until his own career change in 1974) a professor of American Literature at Mills College, Oakland, CA. He is a past president of the Association for Humanistic Psychology. The Wall Street Journal listed him as one of the top ten independent executive development presenters in America.
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brendadog

A Staple

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William Bridges is a key writer in understanding and operationalizing change. The book is easy to read and understand.

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Mark Needs

Change is practical AND emotional!

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This is a great sequel to Bridges "Transitions" and really helps with processing the emotional phases associated with change at work. Timely and helpful read. Great value personally and for coaching and leading others through change.

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This is a very helpful book for anyone trying to navigate transitions--or just about anyone!

Reviewed in Canada 🇨🇦 on August 18, 2020

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Delivered in time and perfect condition.

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Daniel L. Love

Challenge & Opportunities in the change cycles of life.

Reviewed in Canada 🇨🇦 on February 28, 2020

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This is an excellent book about going through organizational and personal changes and transitions.

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Scott Brown

For those who are working to help congregations change directions ...

Reviewed in Canada 🇨🇦 on September 1, 2017

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For those who are working to help congregations change directions,
this work is another gem of a tool to help us understand what is going on.

Reviewed in Canada 🇨🇦 on April 23, 2018

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Mario Gn

Buena lectura

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Buena lectura, en algunos capítulos un poco repetitiva más como profesional de HR me da nuevas herramientas de para change+transition management y en una perspectiva más estratégica más allá de sólo ejecutar el cambio. Recomendable también para una lectura personal

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Luca Lauria

Not a life changer

Reviewed in Italy 🇮🇹 on December 1, 2021

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I bought this to improve my change management skills, unfortunately is too much focused on managing transition only in the job field.

Juan Jo

Tips rápidos

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Excelente rápido de leer y entender

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Steve Gladis

Everyone wants progress, nobody wants transition

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Change is situational—stuff happens—but transition is psychological. And psychological transition is a three-step process: Ending (grieving the loss of what used to be); the Neutral Zone (that period of uncertainty between the old and the new); and the New Beginning (launching the new adventure). It’s vital for a leader to help people move through each of these stages. Transitional leadership requires insightful, persistent and attuned leadership, or both the organizational and personal costs are great. By definition, endings cause losses for those involved, and proper endings must allow people to grieve the loss of what used to be. It’s much like losing a friend or a loved one. The grief of such a loss takes time and requires steps of grieving, which may not be skipped without significant consequences. The Neutral Zone represents the period between the ending of the old and the New Beginning. Filled with uncertainty and angst, this period typically takes time but is the place where innovation most often takes root. Remember, it took Moses 40 years to lead the Israelites through the desert! Finally, the New Beginning marks the shift from the old to the new and can inject new energy and purpose to make change work; however, many insecurities and doubts are associated with anything new. Throughout these three transition phases and the entire transition process, leaders must model the way by being engaged, sympathetic and intrepid. Above all, leaders need to communicate often and transparently about the transition—not ignore or shy away from it.

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Teacher of Teachers

Not the worst business book.

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I read this for a colleague. Let's get this out of the way: it's a business book. I'm not a fan of the genre, and if you are, you might want to consider refocusing your reading on novels and such.

That having been said, this one has nice, concrete examples of poorly managed transitions (mistakes are useful to learn from).

On the other hand, the authors over-state the distinction between "change" and "transition." I don't find it useful when people try to dictate nuance, trying to turn definitions of words into "ah ha" moments of insight into reality. Words are just grunting noises in the end.

I think a good use of the book is to compare communication practices in your company with what is recommended and not recommended in this book. If that is all you get out of this book, you might get your money's worth right there.

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