{"product_id":"9781487540272","title":"Balancing Acts","description":"Author: James Conklin\u003cbr\u003eISBN: 9781487540272\u003cbr\u003ePublisher: University of Toronto Press\u003cbr\u003eYear first published: 15 Oct 2021\u003cbr\u003ePages: 376 \u003cbr\u003eFormat: Hardback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eBalancing Acts 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\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":"Ships in 10 to 15 days","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47919562981534,"sku":"ING-9781487540272","price":60.78,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0400\/9043\/5742\/files\/9781487540272.jpg?v=1782813745","url":"https:\/\/classicbargains.com.au\/products\/9781487540272","provider":"Classic Bargains Australia","version":"1.0","type":"link"}