The following relates excerpts from the Website for Who Moved My Cheese?: "The more important your cheese is to you the more you want to hold on to it." (p. 36) To Succeed at Change: Prepare for Change Gain (obtain) Change Skills Achieve a Change Four Change Skills The following four "easy to understand' change skills are routinely used in training sponsored by Johnson. Skill #1: Anticipating Change Anticipating Change is the ability to see what has

Change Management How Change Efforts Differ Successful organizational change strategies are the key to allowing organizations to utilize their resources in the most effective manner. Many different change strategy methodologies have been introduced over the years. Research into change strategies has advanced and many different models have been developed that will replace some of the earlier traditional models. The question then, that every change manager must ask themselves is which change model

Change There are a few instances were a company tried to institute a large-scale organizational change effort and failed. One recent one was with the FedEx purchase of Kinko's. FedEx had decided that Kinko's would complement its business since they had many mutual customers. The shipping company also felt that if it could professionalize the information Kinko's it would improve the company's profitability. That was not to be. Kinko's had a

Change Ford, Ford and d'Amelio note that most change literature takes the view that resistance to change is irrational and dysfunctional. If this is the view that is taken by the actual change agents, it is not hard to see that the change agents themselves could be contributing to resistance to change. Resistance cannot always be interpreted as self-serving or irrational (two things that are contradictory, it should be noted). The

Existence value of resistance Organization change involves introducing new conversations and shifting existing conversations and patterns of discourse. However, new conversations have a hard time competing with existing conversation and so the challenge for change agents is getting new conversation heard. This is where resistance can be of value. Resistance helps to keep the conversations in existence. Although talking negatively or complaining and criticizing have been viewed as resistance, it can

Change Project A variety of technical and management issues arise during the implementation and operation of any change process. Change management in technology projects is essential to implement and monitor mechanisms to support and control users, business, and technology (Yarberry, 2007). There are different change project modules used at any stage of a project development. These include the change curve, Lewin's change management model, and Beckhard and Harris change model used