Beyond Change Management: How to Achieve Breakthrough Results Through Conscious Change Leadership

INTRODUCTION

	There is nothing more difficult to take in hand, more perilous to conduct, or more uncertain in its success, than to take the lead in the introduction of a new order of things.
	--Niccolo Machiavelli, The Prince (1532)

We can remember when change consultants were few and far between. About the only people thinking about and promoting planned change back then were a handful of organization development practitioners, and they seldom captured the attention of senior leaders.

Now in the twenty-first century, change and how to lead it successfully has become a critical topic on the minds of organizational leaders. And for good reasons: Change is happening everywhere; its speed and complexity are increasing; and the future success of our ...