All Change!
Perfect Projects and the Art of Transformation
2nd Edition
Book
Paperback/Softback
320 pages
978-1-78860-497-0 (ISBN)
Description
This is the very last book you will ever need on leading people with agility through change, projects, programmes and transformation and doing it perfectly!
Is your world uncertain, fast-changing and difficult to navigate.? Is it tough to lead and manage dispersed, diverse teams and stakeholders?
All Change tells you how. Join our hero for the journey across the real and virtual world passing through all your big challenges. On the way you'll unearth memorable insights, discover tools, practice behaviours and apply powerful frameworks. Without effort you'll recall the key lessons. You will enjoy learning 100 award winning PETs (People Engagement Tools/Performance Enhancement Tools) Tools you can put into practice for results within 15 minutes. Visit the QUBE super-reality campus, described by The Financial Times as an Innovative world and The Economist as The future digital place to work. Imagine you can transform your project organisation or your entire organisation easily and fast to a culture that supports and enables success? On QUBE you can.
Is your world uncertain, fast-changing and difficult to navigate.? Is it tough to lead and manage dispersed, diverse teams and stakeholders?
All Change tells you how. Join our hero for the journey across the real and virtual world passing through all your big challenges. On the way you'll unearth memorable insights, discover tools, practice behaviours and apply powerful frameworks. Without effort you'll recall the key lessons. You will enjoy learning 100 award winning PETs (People Engagement Tools/Performance Enhancement Tools) Tools you can put into practice for results within 15 minutes. Visit the QUBE super-reality campus, described by The Financial Times as an Innovative world and The Economist as The future digital place to work. Imagine you can transform your project organisation or your entire organisation easily and fast to a culture that supports and enables success? On QUBE you can.
More details
Edition
2nd edition with expanded content
Language
English
Place of publication
Tadley
United Kingdom
Edition type
Enlarged edition
Product notice
Paperback (trade)
Dimensions
Height: 234 mm
Width: 156 mm
Thickness: 22 mm
ISBN-13
978-1-78860-497-0 (9781788604970)
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Schweitzer Classification
Person
Eddie Obeng is a Business Educator, Author of ten books (including two Financial Times best sellers), digital pioneer and world-class motivational speaker best known for his World After Midnight model (WAM) that makes sense of our 21st century challenges. His Global TED Talk shows why his models and tools work so effectively. Often referred to as 'Prof HOW!', Duke CE call him, 'the Rock Star of Business Education' and Red Bull 'Human Red Bull!'
Content
Book One: All Change
Prologue
Chapter 0: Fuller circle - All Change! Begins. And the relationship of the new edition to the 1990's bestseller
Chapter 1: Full circle - In which examples of change are described The opening of the story and an introduction to some examples of change
Chapter 2: My old mate - In which the difficulties of successfully implementing change are discussed The narrator meets Franck who offers some home truths on the difficulties of implementing change
Chapter 3: Holding onto your gains - In which the hard and soft criteria of project success are established We establish the hard and soft criteria for project success and learn how to blow bubbles for the first time
Chapter 4: A panacea which can make you ill - In which the role of communication in change management is explored The narrator muses on past projects and learns about the role of communication in managing change
Chapter 5: Beware ANTS - In which the challenge of new world change is discussed A picnic is interrupted by ants as we are introduced to the concept of new world change
Chapter 6: Bubble No1 - Learning to learn - In which the position of communication is explored The position of communication and why you are doomed never to meet stakeholders' expectations
Chapter 7: Bubble No2 - Recognising stakeholders - In which the Laws of Change are explained Our hero struggles with stakeholders balancing and the four Laws of Change
Chapter 8: So similar ... yet so different - In which the different types of project change are described Invisible and visible projects, Paint by Numbers and three other project types
Chapter 9: Bubble No3 - Gaining perspective - In which stakeholder co-ordination and planning are investigated Stakeholder coordination and planning, and the revolutionary idea of the Perfect Project
Chapter 10: Bubble No4 - People and me - In which leadership and followership are explored Leadership, followership and the project team
Epilogue: Down the creek without a paddle - In which the problem of spreading ideas quickly is solved Our hero struggles with and overcomes the problem of how to share what he has learned
Book Two: The Project Leader's Secret Handbook
Chapter 11: Purpose and type of change - You learn to work out the issues and challenges you face with your particular project or 'chunk of change'
Chapter 12: Learning to learn Some of the main thinking, skills and behaviour frameworks that you can use to help you in developing your successful career of managing change in chunks
Chapter 13: Recognising stakeholders You will learn that it is not about who are your stakeholders but how you manage them (all).
Chapter 14: Planning, co-ordinating and risks All about continuously gaining and maintaining perspective, and spreading and using that perspective with your stakeholders.
Chapter 15: Working with and leading people What you need to know about the different types of leadership needed for different types of change.
Epilogue: Out of the circle - In which it is shown that future change need not be a repetition of the past.
Book Three: The Philosophy and Practice of Delivering ZERO Defect, Perfect Projects
Chapter 16: All joined up - In which the importance of integrating all change in an organisation is discussed. The importance of integrating All Change in an organisation. IT IS ALL QUITE SIMPLE In which the importance of setting up the right culture, rewards, processes and governance are explained. When an exam is all that stands in the way - In which I discover if my thinking is advanced enough to understand Perfect Projects IN PLAIN SIGHT, IF YOU PAY ATTENTION
Chapter 17: Day in the life of a perfect project - The importance of setting up the right culture, rewards, processes and governance.
Chapter 18: Practitioner insight You use a London Underground-style map as a blueprint for successful projects..
Chapter 19: Future prospects Why transforming the future starts with your own head.
Epilogue: Transformation, the next adventure
Book Four: MetaMorph, or How to Transform Beyond Change
Chapter 20: A framework for transformation Frank explains why you don't ask a caterpillar to teach you to fly
Prologue
Chapter 0: Fuller circle - All Change! Begins. And the relationship of the new edition to the 1990's bestseller
Chapter 1: Full circle - In which examples of change are described The opening of the story and an introduction to some examples of change
Chapter 2: My old mate - In which the difficulties of successfully implementing change are discussed The narrator meets Franck who offers some home truths on the difficulties of implementing change
Chapter 3: Holding onto your gains - In which the hard and soft criteria of project success are established We establish the hard and soft criteria for project success and learn how to blow bubbles for the first time
Chapter 4: A panacea which can make you ill - In which the role of communication in change management is explored The narrator muses on past projects and learns about the role of communication in managing change
Chapter 5: Beware ANTS - In which the challenge of new world change is discussed A picnic is interrupted by ants as we are introduced to the concept of new world change
Chapter 6: Bubble No1 - Learning to learn - In which the position of communication is explored The position of communication and why you are doomed never to meet stakeholders' expectations
Chapter 7: Bubble No2 - Recognising stakeholders - In which the Laws of Change are explained Our hero struggles with stakeholders balancing and the four Laws of Change
Chapter 8: So similar ... yet so different - In which the different types of project change are described Invisible and visible projects, Paint by Numbers and three other project types
Chapter 9: Bubble No3 - Gaining perspective - In which stakeholder co-ordination and planning are investigated Stakeholder coordination and planning, and the revolutionary idea of the Perfect Project
Chapter 10: Bubble No4 - People and me - In which leadership and followership are explored Leadership, followership and the project team
Epilogue: Down the creek without a paddle - In which the problem of spreading ideas quickly is solved Our hero struggles with and overcomes the problem of how to share what he has learned
Book Two: The Project Leader's Secret Handbook
Chapter 11: Purpose and type of change - You learn to work out the issues and challenges you face with your particular project or 'chunk of change'
Chapter 12: Learning to learn Some of the main thinking, skills and behaviour frameworks that you can use to help you in developing your successful career of managing change in chunks
Chapter 13: Recognising stakeholders You will learn that it is not about who are your stakeholders but how you manage them (all).
Chapter 14: Planning, co-ordinating and risks All about continuously gaining and maintaining perspective, and spreading and using that perspective with your stakeholders.
Chapter 15: Working with and leading people What you need to know about the different types of leadership needed for different types of change.
Epilogue: Out of the circle - In which it is shown that future change need not be a repetition of the past.
Book Three: The Philosophy and Practice of Delivering ZERO Defect, Perfect Projects
Chapter 16: All joined up - In which the importance of integrating all change in an organisation is discussed. The importance of integrating All Change in an organisation. IT IS ALL QUITE SIMPLE In which the importance of setting up the right culture, rewards, processes and governance are explained. When an exam is all that stands in the way - In which I discover if my thinking is advanced enough to understand Perfect Projects IN PLAIN SIGHT, IF YOU PAY ATTENTION
Chapter 17: Day in the life of a perfect project - The importance of setting up the right culture, rewards, processes and governance.
Chapter 18: Practitioner insight You use a London Underground-style map as a blueprint for successful projects..
Chapter 19: Future prospects Why transforming the future starts with your own head.
Epilogue: Transformation, the next adventure
Book Four: MetaMorph, or How to Transform Beyond Change
Chapter 20: A framework for transformation Frank explains why you don't ask a caterpillar to teach you to fly