Chapter 8. Energizing Change
CHAPTER OUTLINE
Coping with Imposed Change
Embrace Positive Change
Handle Adverse Change
Choosing to Change
Enhance Individual Creativity
Build Adaptable Teams
Sustaining Engagement
Foster Well—Being
Ensure Performance Support
Reinhold Niebuhr, American theologian and social critic, offered his serenity prayer as a way to think about circumstances and our power to change them. His words have become familiar: "God, give us grace to accept with serenity the things that cannot be changed, courage to change the things which should be changed, and the wisdom to distinguish the one from the other."[253] Useful as this guidance is, however, it doesn't cover every form of change we face. It ignores the imposed alterations, modifications, ...
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