The Effective Change Manager's Handbook

Preface

Change management in context

It is less than a year since I wrote the preface to the Change Management Instituteʼs The Effective Change Manager: The Change Management Body of Knowledge (CMBoK). At the time I had little idea that I would be writing another preface so soon. However, a need has become apparent for a robust examinable text that follows the content and structure of that body of knowledge. In the preface to The Effective Change Manager I described change management as:

• an emergent profession;

• an interdisciplinary profession;

• a developing profession.

Change management is an emergent profession in the sense that no one set out to invent it. The rapidly changing demands on organizations in the latter part of the 20th century and ...