A popular maxim states that the only constant in business today is change. Whether the result of growth opportunities, new competition, technological advances or other internal and external factors, every business enterprise must manage change. Since the 1980s, companies have experimented with a method for driving change—High Performance Teams (HPTs), work teams that achieve a quantum leap in results in less than a year. Drawing from over 25 years of experience with HPTs, Marc Hanlan traces their history in a wide variety of industries, analyzes the key factors that contribute to success—or failure—and offers a comprehensive guide to building and managing them successfully. Featuring dozens of case examples and a detailed template for translating plans into action, High Performance Teams shows you how to: prepare the organization, select team leaders and members, set goals, accelerate development times, overcome obstacles, and measure results. Including an extensive bibliography and glossary of key terms and concepts, High Performance Teams will become an indispensable resource for business executives and owners, team leaders and members, and facilitators, trainers, consultants, and coaches. For shareholders, customers, and students of organizational behavior, High Performance Teams offers unique insight into the dynamics of breakthrough business performance.

Creating Effortless Change looks at leading change by offering a fundamental shift in the perspective of leadership. By redefining leadership and offering a new perspective for leaders, the author shows how extraordinary Change Leaders make the impossible become routine, the uncontrollable become manageable, and resistance become alignment. What leadership does is important. How leadership is, is even more important. This book explores how leadership is. You probably don't need this book if you: -Get all of the cooperation you need to get things done -Simply tell people to do something, and they do it -Have no difficult situations with people -Have no conflict in the workplace or your personal life -Can leave people alone and they get all their work done -Believe there is nothing else to learn about leadership -Don't want to read but will wait for the audiobook -Don't like to read and don't want to You probably can use this book if you: -Find that things don't work out as you would like them to -Believe that leading has challenges -Don't understand why people don't agree with the 'right' way to do things -Wonder how others get so much done with so little time -Know that there must be better ways to lead change -Wonder why change is so hard -Are curious about the future of leadership and change From the Foreword by Claude Cloutier, Ph.D., CEO of XtremeEDA: "This is a leading-edge book on change...the author is a change visionary whose Culture chapter on its own is priceless...offering a vision of where change and change leadership are going, with the theory, tools, techniques...experience, and wisdom ready to be adapted to your specific context and change initiative...this book shows how change should be effortless and fun."

Across the millennia, leaders have used Programs to achieve their objectives. Even today, Programs are the most common way that organizations make change happen. People are the most critical factor in the success of Programs, yet their support and participation are often taken for granted. Change Management is the art and science of having people prepared with the best tools and aligned to support the Program's success. Change Management is the key to successful Programs. Written by an expert in the field and the author of several textbooks on change and transformation, this book offers a comprehensive real-world step-by-step guide to enable success in small- and large-scale Programs. From new perspectives on resistance, alignment, leadership, and more, this volume includes a 'primer' on Change Management, 91 key activities that make a difference, and more than 65 common challenges (and their practical solutions). As the first of four volumes in the Masters of Change series, It's time to try Change Management for a Change.