The Change Handbook, 2nd Edition

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BARRY OSHRY AND TOM DEVANE

Organization Workshop

I can see clearly now, the rain is gone,

I can see all obstacles in my way

Gone are the dark clouds that had me blind

It’s gonna be a bright, bright sun-shiny day.

—Johnny Nash

High-Tech Entrepreneurialism

Between 7:30 and 8:00 A.M., 50 workshop participants arrived at the conference center nestled among the pine trees in a rural setting. Though the senior executives, middle managers, and frontline workers present had received a preworkshop briefing, there was a high level of anticipation and some anxiety in the room. The California-based H-Tech Company is a 5,000-person high-tech manufacturing ...