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Managing Transitions, 25th anniversary edition: Making the Most of Change
William Bridges, Susan Bridges
3.79 AVERAGE
29 reviews for:
Managing Transitions, 25th anniversary edition: Making the Most of Change
William Bridges, Susan Bridges
3.79 AVERAGE
3.5/5 : this was a required reading for school but I’m actually glad I got the chance to read it! pretty interesting and thought provoking.
I wish I could have read this 30 years ago. The ideas in this book would have made a lot of changes easier to deal with, including corporate restructuring and downsizing not to mention personal and social changes. I’ll be re-reading this one every so often as I learn to incorporate the ideas.
Great read, especially if you’re dealing with big changes at work or in community work. I’m glad I read this since we are currently and will continue to be going through changes in my company. I learned a lot about how to lead change in the future and how I can be a leader in our current/upcoming changes.
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My boss gave me this book on the eve of a major life transition. This is an exceptionally helpful book. Whether transition is being forced on you as in the case of a job loss or the death of a loved one or you choose it as in the case of retirement, whether it's a positive change like the birth of a child or a negative change like a divorce, A transition is a process in which we come to terms with a new situation. And Bridges describes how the transition involves three stages: an ending, a neutral zone between the old reality and the new, and a new beginning. He offers some practical strategies for navigating this transition process, one that he says we will repeat throughout our lives as we alternate between stability and change.
Extremely informative and actionable.
Each section ends with a little quiz to help you sort your thoughts out and mentally apply the lessons. He also tells you how he would act in certain situations so that you get some 'real world' examples with all the theory. It helped me to assimilate the information into understanding.
The text is broken up well so you don't feel like you're slogging through a book on change management, which you are. Although that's not quite true because Williams' thesis is that it's not the change that trips us up; it's the transition.
A definite recommend for those who are having to manage big changes (or little ones) or are about to, but don't expect a NYT bestseller self-help book prose style; this is very utilitarian. Read it because you need it, not to pass the time.
Each section ends with a little quiz to help you sort your thoughts out and mentally apply the lessons. He also tells you how he would act in certain situations so that you get some 'real world' examples with all the theory. It helped me to assimilate the information into understanding.
The text is broken up well so you don't feel like you're slogging through a book on change management, which you are. Although that's not quite true because Williams' thesis is that it's not the change that trips us up; it's the transition.
A definite recommend for those who are having to manage big changes (or little ones) or are about to, but don't expect a NYT bestseller self-help book prose style; this is very utilitarian. Read it because you need it, not to pass the time.
Somehow, the idea that we’re making a transition seems larger than making a change and simultaneously more concerning and more comforting. Managing Transitions: Making the Most of Change intentionally couples the word “transitions” to change to remind us of the personal nature of the kinds of change most of us consider. In that reminder is the reality that, to accomplish organizational change, we must change individually, and that means letting go of some of the things that have given us comfort.
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