Amazon.ca:Customer reviews: Managing Transitions (25th anniversary edition): Making the Most of Change

brendadog

A Staple

Reviewed in Canada 🇨🇦 on October 18, 2022

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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!

Reviewed in Canada 🇨🇦 on January 24, 2022

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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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Don

Very helpful

Reviewed in Canada 🇨🇦 on March 11, 2021

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

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Madalina

Reccomended

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.

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Amazon Customer

Five Stars

Reviewed in Canada 🇨🇦 on April 23, 2018

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Great book

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Leslie D. Rust

Great book on transitions

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on February 10, 2023

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Change is a constant in our world today. Transition is more about how we handle/manage the changes that are coming our way. This is a great book that examines how people/leaders/organizations handle that different aspect of change. so much has changed in the past few years, and yet lots of people have no clue as to how to make the transitions to the new realities. This book will definitely help.

John W. Pearson

Change Is External. Transition Is Internal.

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on April 5, 2017

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Imagine this! Patrick Lencioni at age 23: “I first met [William Bridges] before I knew he was a world-renowned author and thinker. I was introduced to him for an informational interview of sorts, just to learn about the world of organizational consulting.”

Fast forward to Lencioni’s foreword in the 25th anniversary edition of "Managing Transitions: Making the Most of Change." Lencioni writes, “All too often, people and organizations that are confronted with change find themselves struggling and don’t know why. They’ve applied every practical solution, quantitative method, and technical approach to managing change, and they’re at a loss for why it’s not working."

Lencioni adds (with gratefulness), “And then they learn about the Bridges transition model and realize that change and transition are very different animals.”

I never met William Bridges, but here’s what I said in my 2007 review of this national bestseller:

Bridges writes, “Imagine that the change [you’re planning] is a cue ball rolling across the surface of a pool table. There are lots of other balls on the table, and it’s going to hit a few of them, some because you planned it that way and some unintentionally. Try to foresee as many of those hits as you can.”

When this book was first published in 1991, it was recognized as the definitive guide to dealing with change. It still holds that position. If it’s not on your organization’s resource shelf, it needs to be.

William Bridges writes, “It isn’t the changes that do you in, it’s the transitions. Change is not the same as transition. Change is situational: the new site, the new boss, the new team roles, the new policy. Transition is the psychological process people go through to come to terms with the new situation. Change is external, transition is internal.”

Being the boss is not always what it’s cracked up to be. When the book was first published, according to Bridges, employees were winning more than half of the wrongful discharge cases filed. “Stress-related disability, including the claimed stress of working for you, is another increasingly common complaint.”

The 25th anniversary edition describes the book as “the best-selling guide to dealing with the human side of organizational change.” I’ve recommended the book to almost every one of my clients.

Change is a given—but how thoughtful leaders, managers, and board members handle the psychological impact of transitions requires both understanding the problem and executing three critical steps:

Step 1: Understand that transition begins with letting go of something. (See also Henry Cloud’s insights in Necessary Endings , my 2011 book-of-the-year.)

Step 2: Enter the neutral zone (the no man’s land between the old reality and the new). Some will abort in this zone, not wanting the pain. But it’s also the place where creativity, renewal and development will often occur. “The neutral zone is thus a dangerous and opportune place, and it is the very core of the transition process.”

Step 3: Celebrate the new beginning, but it’s often torpedoed because leaders don’t mark an appropriate end to the neutral zone (or skip it altogether). The new beginning can only be effective when your people go through the first two steps.

I love books that include pithy quotations—and I counted a whopping 87 quotes in the generous margins, including this from G.K. Chesterton: “An adventure is only an inconvenience rightly understood. An inconvenience is only an adventure wrongly understood.”

Before you announce the next big change at your organization, read this book!

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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.

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