Change is the Rule: Practical Actions for Change...On Target, On Time, and On Budget By Dutch Holland, Ph.D., Dearborn Trade (Chicago), May 2000; released with new covers by WinHope Press (Houston), October 2004. Click Here For Book Review

A very practical, how-to-do it book on Managing Change in the organization. Uses a powerful metaphor that immediately allows readers a new perspective on how to make change happen on target, on time, and on budget.

The book is built around several key ideas...

• Organizational change is now the rule and no longer the exception
• All managers must become as good at managing change as they are at running their day-to-day business
• Managers can grasp the key ideas in change management very easily with the book's "the organization is like a theater company" metaphor
• Change happens when managers alter the four mechanical attributes of organizations: Vision, Work Processes, Plant/Equipment/Tools, and Performance Management Systems
• Change happens when mangers act on those attributes with "an engineering focus … and high social awareness."
• Change does not happen in a vacuum… so managers must "Change their Business while Running their Business"
• Managers have mastered change in their organization when they can make changes as easily and efficiently as theater companies change from one play to another.
• Individuals in organizations have when they can make a change as easily and professionally as an actor does when she moves from a great performance in one play to a winning performance in a new play!

You may order individual copies of Change Is The Rule from Amzon.com. Special quantity discounts are available through WinHope Press at 877-340-8130 and winhope@hdinc.com.