Dealing with change has been studied a lot for a long time. These references and links will get you started or you can search for various terms with various internet search engines. Much of managing or navigating change is common sense, but it helps to be reminded by reviewing some of these references, or by going into depth with some of the books.
- Change
Management - Links to Other Sites
- Resistance to Change (changing minds.org)
- Change
Codes (35 short hints on dealing with change by Joe Flower)
- The
Change Project (lots of information on change by Joe Flower)
- Change
Management 101 (A Primer)
- Change Management (managing change.biz)
- Organizational Change and Development (a portal for many links)
- Managing Organizational Change (from answers.com)
- Change Management (highlights with links to more detailed information)
- Change Management - Short Summaries
- The Change Resisters - Book summary: The Change Resisters, George Odiorne. 1981.
- Navigating
Change - Book summary: How CEOs, Top Teams, and Boards Steer Transformation, edited by Donald C. Hambrick, et al. 1998.
- The 10 Challenges of Change. - Book excerpt: Peter Senge as source.
- Selected Books on Change That Could be Considered as Classics
- Bennis, Warren. Managing the Dream: Reflections on Leadership and Change (2000).
- Drucker, Peter. Management Challenges for the 21st Century (2001).
- Drucker, Peter. Managing in a Time of Great Change (1995).
- Kotter, John. Leading Change (1991).
- Senge, Peter. The Dance of Change: The Challenges to Sustaining Momentum
in Learning Organizations" (1999).