Intentional Revolutions: A Seven-Point Strategy for Transforming Organizations

by Helen C. Vassallo, Joan Lancourt, Edwin C. Nevis, et al.

Book Overview

Let science set the stage The most valuable ally a change agent could want. Author Edwin Nevis and his coauthors leverage breakthrough behavioral and social science research to arrive at seven... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0787902403
• ISBN13: 9780787902407
• Release Date: May 1996
• Publisher: Jossey-Bass
• Length: 312 Pages
• Weight: 1.36 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 7.0" x 8.9"

Customer Reviews

Definitely worth reading

This a really good read. The authors begin from the premise that organizations are now more than ever forced to operate in a climate of change. Their capacity for transformation is therefore increasingly essential for their survival. The authors outline seven strategies for achieving such a transformation: coercion, persuasive communication, participation, structural rearrangement, role modelling, extrinsic rewards and expectancy. The different chapters are presented and organised in a readily accessible style, and their argument has a powerful intuitive appeal because of the way it resonates with many of our commonplace, day-to-day experiences of organisational culture and change.If the book has a weakness it is one common to this genre - namely that it deals much more effectively with what should be done than how it should be done. I find their seven strategies much more useful as a diagnostic or descriptive tool - helping to understand change efforts as merely one of several possible approaches - rather than as a prescriptive blueprint for how change can be implemented.