{"product_id":"balancing-acts-a-human-systems-approach-to-organizational-change-9781487540272","title":"Balancing Acts: A Human Systems Approach to Organizational Change","description":"\u003cp\u003e • Author(s): James Conklin\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher: Rotman-Utp Publishing\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher Imprint: Rotman-Utp Publishing\u003cbr\u003e • BISAC: Strategic Planning\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eBalancing Acts\u003c\/em\u003e offers consultants and managers a simple, powerful way to think about change, and ascribes a four-phase iterative process for implementing change. Reviewing change initiatives from different types of organizations, \u003ci\u003eBalancing Acts\u003c\/i\u003e confronts the problems and pitfalls head-on that often arise during workplace transitions. Conklin explains why organizational change can be so difficult, and shows that by balancing a set of competing psychological and systemic challenges, interveners will increase their chance of success.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eConklin shows that human groups function as complex systems, and that a change initiative is not a linear progression toward a predefined result. Instead, change is an iterative process that involves a search for feasible and useful solutions. The book's central argument is that while leading or supporting this search, consultants and leaders must balance four critical concerns: confrontation and compassion, participation and observation, assertion and inquiry, and planfulness and emergence.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Atlantic Books","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":46449640702103,"sku":"9781487540272","price":3517.0,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0666\/3471\/1191\/files\/9781487540272.webp?v=1769147488","url":"https:\/\/atlanticbooks.com\/products\/balancing-acts-a-human-systems-approach-to-organizational-change-9781487540272","provider":"Atlantic Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}