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Change management is a high priority on every corporate agenda these days. But even the fattest budgets and the most brilliant strategies won't do the job if managers don't put the right people in the right positions.

This refreshingly different approach to change management is based on a simple and eye-opening premise: that organizational change happens one person at a time. Using the author's unique "personal change capacity" model, it shows managers how to identify and develop people according to their potential:

* A-players, who thrive in pivotal change positions * B-players, happy to provide support and take on some new challenges * C-players, solid performers, but not comfortable with change * D-players, whose resistance to change is so strong that the company may be better off without them.

Based on a proven, battle-tested process developed at major companies, this down-to-earth guide is enhanced by useful assessment forms and planning tools. It should be embraced by every manager and human resources professional charged with the messy but vital task of choosing the best people to making change happen.

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Good thoughts, but misses the point on what really is going on..........2006-01-24

"Making Change Happen" is good, as far as it goes. The discussion of people and their ability to fit in a changing organization and promote the change is good. If you are buying this book to guide in change planning and implementation, it provides some good groundwork information. But it is not sufficient, by itself. This author uses supervisors' assessments of "change readiness", etc.. Other books and articles provide more rigorous and objective testing of staff change readiness, etc. The author also does not deal with the morale and organizational impact of forced reassignments and "outplacement" (lay-offs or firings). He even strongly implies that the staff that remain will have higher morale during the process. Obviously, he is a consultant. He has never been close to the workforce in an organization that is in the midst of an organizational change process, or one that has had lay-offs or firings in the proceeding months or years. Nor has he read the research on how those impact morale, retention of business knowledge, and, ultimately, productivity. In that sense, this book reminds me of the Hammer and Champy "Reengineering" books of the last decade; pregnant with potential, but lacking a connection with critical components of the realities of what is happening in the corporation.

The ABCs of Personal Change Capacity.......2001-02-24

The infinite dynamics of change are not readily evident when someone or an evaluation team sets out to forge a series of modifications in an individual, a group or an organization. When charging forward to create a new course-setting direction with fervor, some change agents are driven by tradition, expedience, budget restrictions or just plain misconceptions. The very best of individual and collective good intentions may be interspersed and circumscribed by a host of expected, but not easily attainable, intended outcomes. Small and large businesses, local governments and the most spirited educators are engaged in a never ending surge of personnel change processes that seems to work no catalytic miracles for the changes they are so diligently striving to accomplish. Fortunately, there exists an exciting new way to avoid the pitfalls of recruiting, selecting and appointing an individual to a new station in the organization and then seeing that very person fall from grace because the organization just simply did not put in place the correct strategy to use this vital human resource in the proper way. Dr. Charles H. Bishop has penned a timely treatise on one of the most important topics of our day. Dr. Bishop has brought forth a way to save time and money when organizations need to enact a significant personnel change for the good of the organization. What is the seemingly invisible assay that brings about real change with positive benefits for all? The "it" we are searching for has been refined by a shortlist of brave new world human resource people in some the nation's most progressive corporations. When one of these individuals (that is, Dr. Bishop) began to envision that changing organizations meant that the smallest unit or cog in the wheels of change had to be nourished, tested, refined and mentored by a new set of assumptions, a new distillation of personnel and leadership change factors became self-evident. In a phrase, the answer is "personal change capacity". As an education professor and practicum supervisor for prospective educational administrators enrolled for a northern Virginia private university, I have been reading with great interest the research literature associated with the role, purpose and mission of leaders for some time. When I read "Making Change Happen One Person at a Time", I knew I had stumbled on a set of solid statements related to making practical and proven personnel assessments. A careful study of Dr. Bishop's book began to unravel why some aspiring principals, or any future leader for that matter, seem to catch the vision of their place in schools or in other settings while, in contrast, other equally energetic and enthusiastic neophyte leader candidates faltered, floundered and ultimately failed to reach their leadership potential. Dr. Bishop reveals that when we attempt to place "successful" individuals in supposedly key positions in an unsystematic manner in order to cause positive changes, not only do the chosen ones typically underachieve, their failure sends a very a strong signal that we have inadvertently omitted crucial considerations of that individual's unique capacity to function in a new leadership arena. What are these crucial considerations and how do we put the important factors to use so that we make keener and crisper decisions that result in moving our visions and missions forward? Literally and figuratively, it is as easy as the following the ABCs. Dr. Bishop has formulated a schema that anyone might follow to identify pivotal players in any organization-even a small or large school. The scale of potential leaders begins with the A-players and concludes with the D-players. There are those among us that thrive on challenges and posses the wherewithal to meet and overcome the woes and throes of organizational stumbling blocks. At the opposite end of the leadership spectrum are the resisters who resemble the tares in the wheat field. They appear willing to change, but use a variety of ever-so-subtle tactical means to prevent the organization from reaching its objective. No matter the size and dimensions of an organization, everyone's desire is make the right personnel decisions in an appropriately researched manner. You will find your personnel pathways lined with practical signs and directions in Dr. Bishop's refreshing new take on the change agent's new role of assessing an individual's capacity to greet and welcome the inevitable and rapid changes coming down the organizational and external pikes.

Change is the Only Constant for My Small Business.......2000-12-02

An invaluable guide and a true eye opening experience. My small business means constant change and knowledge of my people. This book is very helpful and informative. As a small business owner it is critical that I find the right people and that they are in the best roles. This book has changed the way I look at my people and potential hires. If you want to improve your personnel assessment and feel confident facing the challenges of business life this is a must read.

Change is the Only Constant for My Small Business.......2000-12-02

very informative.......2000-12-01

I found this book informative. It really helped me evaluate each of my staff members individually as well as how they fit within my team.

Measuring and Assessing Organizations (Wiley Series on Organizational Assessment & Change)

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Measuring and Assessing Organizations (Wiley Series on Organizational Assessment & Change)
Andrew Van De Ven , Diane L. Ferry , and Andrew H. Van de Ven
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Assessing Organizational Change (Wiley Series on Organizational Assessment & Change)

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Assessing Organizational Change (Wiley Series on Organizational Assessment & Change)
Paul S. Goodman
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Assessing Organizational Change: A Guide to Methods, Measures & Practices (Pure and Applied Mathematics: A Wiley-Interscience Series of Texts, Monographs and Tracts)

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Assessing Organizational Change: A Guide to Methods, Measures & Practices (Pure and Applied Mathematics: A Wiley-Interscience Series of Texts, Monographs and Tracts)

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Assessing Organizational Effectiveness: Systems Change, Adaptation and Strategy (Suny Series on Administrative Systems)

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Assessing Organizational Effectiveness: Systems Change, Adaptation and Strategy (Suny Series on Administrative Systems)
Raymond F. Zammuto
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Assessing the change-readiness of your organization.: An article from: Bank Marketing

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Assessing the change-readiness of your organization.: An article from: Bank Marketing
T. Wood Parker
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This digital document is an article from Bank Marketing, published by Bank Marketing Assn. on April 1, 1997. The length of the article is 831 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

From the supplier: Change management in an organization requires an analysis of the organizational dynamics that strengthen the need for change-readiness assessments. Survey questions developed from assessments focus on the key organizational factors which include the external environment, mission and strategy, leadership, culture, management practices, systems and procedures, working conditions, skills, motivation, individual values, and performance. The answers derived from survey questions can serve as basis for effective implementation of change.

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Title: Assessing the change-readiness of your organization.
Author: T. Wood Parker
Publication: Bank Marketing (Magazine/Journal)
Date: April 1, 1997
Publisher: Bank Marketing Assn.
Volume: v29 Issue: n4 Page: p28(2)

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Dynamics of planned organizational change: assessing the use of a theoretical model in intercollegiate athletics.: An article from: Mid-Atlantic Journal of Business

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Dynamics of planned organizational change: assessing the use of a theoretical model in intercollegiate athletics.: An article from: Mid-Atlantic Journal of Business
Jim Kadlecek , David K. Scott , Jay Brooks , and Mick F. Jackowski
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This digital document is an article from Mid-Atlantic Journal of Business, published by Stillman School of Business on June 1, 1999. The length of the article is 4764 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

From the supplier: A study used the Robertson, Roberts, and Porras theoretical model of the dynamics of planned organizational change to establish a framework in determining how NCAA Division I and Division II intercollegiate athletic administrators cope with the preparation and implementation of changes required for gender-equity compliance. Results show that the model is effective in analyzing change in intercollegiate athletic departments when carrying out programs for gender equity compliance.

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Title: Dynamics of planned organizational change: assessing the use of a theoretical model in intercollegiate athletics.
Author: Jim Kadlecek
Publication: Mid-Atlantic Journal of Business (Refereed)
Date: June 1, 1999
Publisher: Stillman School of Business
Volume: 35 Issue: 2-3 Page: 105(1)

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Blueprint For Action: Achieving Center-Based Change Through Staff Development

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Blueprint For Action: Achieving Center-Based Change Through Staff Development
Paula Jorde Bloom , Marilyn Sheerer , and Joan Britz
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This book is an indispensable guide for any director who is serious about staff development. With insight and a keen awareness of the realities facing the field, the authors provide realistic strategies for promoting change, developing staff, and increasing program effectiveness. Blueprint for Action is flexible enough to be used in a variety of settings. It is a must for your professional library. Chapters include: 1) Child Care Centers as Organizations: A Social Systems Perspective 2) The Dynamics of Organizational Change 3) The Diretor's Role in the Change Process 4) Assessing Oranizational Needs 5) Assessing Individual Needs 6) Implementing an Individualized Model of Staff Development 7) Linking Staff Development to Performance Appraisal and a Career Ladder 8) Meshing Organizational and Individual Needs

Core network: A program planning model for assessing an agency's developmental potential / Larry Hirschhorn (Retrenchment working papers)

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Core network: A program planning model for assessing an agency's developmental potential / Larry Hirschhorn (Retrenchment working papers)
Larry Hirschhorn
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This exciting new edition is packed with every legal definition you'll ever need to know!

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An excellent & handy resource for beginning law students!.......2001-08-30

Gilbert's Pocket Law Dictionary is a professional, succinct, and handy resource for beginning law, social studies, and government studies students. Its small, handy format makes it easy to have ready in any class, and provides professional and easy to understand definitions for the layman. There haven't been very many terms that I haven't been able to find in this professional yet affordable resource.

great for law students.......2000-03-31

This dictionary explains all those tricky latin words that pop up in your casebook. It is a lot more easy to understand than Black's and is lightweight enough to be carried in your backpack.

Gilbert Law Summaries Pocket Size Law Dictionary: Black

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Gilbert Law Summaries Pocket Size Law Dictionary: Black
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Manufacturer: Harcourt Legal & Professional Publications, Inc.
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In this volume the creator and director of Jodrell Bank, the world's largest radio telescope, tells the fascinating story behind the building of this huge telescope. The building of the telescope was fraught with mishaps and frustration--financial, political, and otherwise; yet, through his perseverance, Sir Bernard Lovell made its creation a reality. His story, drawn largely from personal diaries, documents the complex conflicts among scientists, bureaucrats, and politicians which arose out of this monumental endeavor.

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This textbook makes use of the popular computer program MATLAB as the major computer tool to study mechanics of composite materials. It is written specifically for students in engineering and materials science, examining step-by-step solutions of composite material mechanics problems using MATLAB. Each of the 12 chapters is well structured and includes a summary of the basic equations, MATLAB functions used in the chapter, solved examples and problems for students to solve. The main emphasis of Mechanics of Composite Materials with MATLAB is on learning the composite material mechanics computations and on understanding the underlying concepts. The solutions to most of the given problems appear in an appendix at the end of the book. The accompanying CD-ROM includes a set of MATLAB functions that are written by the authors specifically to be used with the book and a detailed solutions manual.

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A good introductory text for students and beginners.......2007-06-27

We are writing this review of the book as our response as authors to the other review posted on this page. This book is intended to be an introductory text for students and beginners of Mechanics of Composite Materials. The presentation is simple and brief. Furthermore, it is accompanied by a CD-ROM that has numerous MATLAB functions that can be used to do the basic calculations in this subject. And we stress that we emphasize the basic calculations with no attempt to introduce advanced topics.

It is true that the calculations in this book could also be done using EXCEL. However, it is not straightforward and very difficult to perform some of these calculations in EXCEL. In fact, EXCEL is not designed to handle matrices and matrix operations like MATLAB. The choice of MATLAB for this book is based on the fact that MATLAB is a Matrix Laboratory - it was specifically designed to handle matrices and matrix operations. And we know that these types of calculations are exactly those encountered in Mechanics of Composite Materials. Thus MATLAB and not EXCEL is the right choice for this kind of book.

The subject of damage initiation is mentioned briefly in a short chapter at the end of the book. Indeed this is an advanced topic that is not normally covered in texts on Mechanics of Composite Materials. The most popular books on Mechanics of Composite Materials (like the books of Kaw, Jones, Gibson, etc) do not even mention this advanced topic. The only book that we are aware of that shows some discussion of damage initiation is the book by Herakovich - but this is the exception not the rule. We have included a short chapter on damage initiation solely to introduce the subject and guide the reader where to find additional detailed information. Furthermore, we as authors have written another book especially on the topic on damage initiation in composite materials. The book is entitled "Advances in Damage Mechanics: Metals and Metal Matrix Composites" by Voyiadjis and Kattan, Second Edition, published by Elsevier in 2006. The interested reader may refer to this advanced book for details on damage initiation in composite materials.

We have included another short chapter on homogenization at the end of the book. Again this is an advanced topic that is not normally covered in other books on Mechanics of Composite Materials. We have included this short and brief chapter to introduce the topic and guide the reader where to find further information. The interested reader will have to look into advanced specialized books on homogenization such as the book by Nemat-Nasser. He will not find this information in any competing books on Mechanics of Composite Materials.

We feel that we are fully justified in leaving out the detailed presentation of these advanced topics of this book. Again, the book is intended for students and beginners who do not seek these advanced topics in an introductory book like ours. Finally, we should note that we included the complete Solutions Manual to most of the problems in the book at the end of the book and also on the accompanying CD-ROM. The rest of the book is a printout of the Solutions Manual which some people may erroneously perceive as MATLAB output.

An informative, albeit somewhat disappointing text.......2007-03-07

A critique of this text must not go without a brief mention of the book's merits. The included CD contains lots of .m files for simple calculations and manipulations of the constitutive matrices. The book is ordered in a fairly straightforward manner. The calculations described in the book are correct. But that's about it.

You see, "Mechanics of Composite Materials with MATLAB" does not go into much detail about the mechanics of composite materials. Instead, it assumes you have a thorough knowledge of classical lamination theory (and an appropriate text for reference of said theory) and instead focuses on the MATLAB implimentation of lamination theory. Which would be great if the things the author does in MATLAB couldn't already be done in Excel.

Instead of focusing on the merits of MATLAB, like its ability to solve complex differential equations or to display contour plots and response surfaces, the author insists on devoting endless pages to elementary manipulations of various compliance and stiffness matrices. Half the book's pages, in fact, are devoted to showing raw MATLAB output. Which might be alright, if that information weren't already included on the CD. The useful information (if you call it that) ends on page 204. The rest is MATLAB output.

Worse yet, the three redeeming chapters of this book -- the ones on failure theories, homogenization methods, and damage initiation -- are brief (about 20 pages between the three of them) and WITHOUT SOLUTIONS (in print or on the CD). That's right. Even if you purchase this book, you will remain unable to plot a failure envelope, evaluate Eshelby's tensor, or do anything else that goes beyond the level of trivial.

Perhaps I shouldn't be so harsh in reviewing this book, but I feel that a text whose title claims to impliment MATLAB in studying the mechanics of composite materials should have a bit more meat to it. In fairness, I think this book could be complimentary to an introductory class on composite materials.

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In Genes, Categories and Species, Jody Hey provides an enlightening new solution to one of biology's most ironic and perplexing puzzles. When Darwin showed that life evolves, and that it does so by natural selection, he transformed our understanding of living things. But the very question Darwin addressed-the nature of species-continues to pose an awkward conundrum for biologists. Despite enormous efforts by a great many scholars, biologists still cannot agree on how to identify species or even how to define the word "species." Genes, Categories, and Species is not like other books on the species problem, for it does not begin by asking, "What is a species?" Instead, it focuses on the very fact that biologists are stumped by species and their curious behavior in coping with that uncertainty. Faced with a persistent conundrum-and no lack of data on the subject-biologists who ponder the species problem have ceased to ask the most essential of scientific questions: "What new information do we need to resolve the problem?" This is the question that motivates this book and leads to the discoveries it reveals. The answer to the species problem lies not with the processes and patterns of biological diversity, Hey contends, but rather in the way the human mind perceives and categorizes that diversity. The promise of this book is twofold. First, it allows biologists to understand the causes of the species problem and to use this knowledge to avoid the major confusions that arise over species. Second, with its explanation of the species problem, it gives scholars and students of human nature a humbling example of how ill-suited the human mind is for certain kinds of scientific questions.

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Do you want to stop suffering "the species problem"?.......2001-09-01

Jody Hey's book provides an answer to a problem that has plagued biologists over the past century. Biologists have been suffering "the species problem": how can we come up with a definition for biological species? The word "species" is famous and incredibly popular. Biologists, and newspapers and magazines use the word daily, nature lovers and conservationsist love to count them, and of course Darwin wrote the book that shook the world with "species" in the title. As biologists we have had a burning passion to paint a tidy picture in words to exactly capture what species are. The debate has paraded over numerous books, and has taken up very much journal space. Yet there is no agreement on exactly what a species is! Jody Hey, a theoretical and empirical biologist, has come up with a convincing answer. Hey has weaved together philosophical, psychological, anthropological, and biological information (down to the genetic level) to show us how we have been trying to define the undefinable. Humans love to delineate recurrent patterns in our world, and put them in neat categories. But our categorization process is a very human thing and it has limitations for how we see our world. The species problem, Jody Hey describes, is like "trying to put clouds into boxes." Jody Hey shows us that 'species' are unreal, but that there are things out there in our biological worlds that are real, though fuzzy. These are "evolutionary groups." They are real because evolutionary forces have acted on them in the past, and continue to act on them in the present. Biologists must become comfortable with the notion that biological nature is fuzzy and stop looking for pithy definitions of "species". In this way we can get on with studying the really interesting problems -- how evolutionary processes work.
If you are a person interested in discovering how human thinking (and language) can distort our picture of the world, then this book provides a fascinating account. If you are a biologist who uses the word "species", this book is ESSENTIAL reading.

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Easy Science Demos & Labs For Physics (Easy Science Demos and Labs Series Ser)
Thomas Kardos
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The Christmas Quilt

The Christmas Quilt: An Elm Creek Quilts Novel (Elm Creek Quilts Novels)
Jennifer Chiaverini
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ASIN: 074328657X

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When Christmas Eve comes to Elm Creek Manor, the tenor of the holiday is far from certain. Sylvia Bergstrom Compson, the Master Quilter, has her own reasons for preferring a quiet, even subdued, Christmas. Her young friend Sarah McClure, however, takes the opposite view and decides to deck the halls brightly. As she explores the trunks packed with Bergstrom family decorations that haven't been touched in more than fifty years, Sarah discovers a curious Christmas quilt. Begun in seasonal fabrics and patterns, the quilt remains unfinished.

Sylvia reveals that the handiwork spans several generations and a quartet of Bergstrom quilters -- her great aunt, her mother, her sister, and herself. As she examines the array of quilt blocks each family member contributed but never completed, memories of Christmases past emerge.

At Elm Creek Manor, Christmas began as a celebration of simple virtues -- joy and hope buoyed by the spirit of giving. As each successive generation of Bergstroms lived through its unique trials -- the antebellum era, the Great Depression, World War II -- tradition offered sustenance even during the most difficult times. For Sylvia, who is coping with the modern problem of family dispersed, estranged, or even forgotten, reconciliation with her personal history may prove as elusive as piecing the Christmas Quilt.

Elm Creek Manor is full of secrets, from a Christmas tree with unusual properties to the sublime Bergstrom strudel recipe. Sylvia's tales at first seem to inform her family legacy but ultimately illuminate far more, from the importance of women's art to its place in commemorating our shared experience, at Christmastime and in every season.

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Great Book.......2007-09-24

As with all of her previous books, The Christmas Quilt is excellent. I am now waiting for Jennifer's newest book to be available.

Excellent!.......2007-08-05

I've read and enjoyed every one of the Quilt Camp books. Well worth my time and very enjoyable - especially for those of us who enjoy quilting!

Boring.......2007-07-26

This is the first one of the Elm Creek Quilts novels that I thought was extremely boring. However, I feel that it is a must read to explain alot about the characters in the series. I don't think you will be disappointed, just bored a bit.

Love the series..........2007-07-17

This was not my favorite of the Elm Creek Quilt series, but I think it might be because I didn't read it around Christmas time. It didn't seem to fall into the same style as Chiaverini's other novels, but I still enjoyed this!

The Christmas Quilt.......2007-04-04

Delightful book - enjoyed tremendously! All of Jennifer Chiaverini's books are fantastic! She has a special gift!

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