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Organizational change doesn't have to be so difficult. Leading change expert Jake Jacobs shares eight fail-safe ways to make any change initiative at any organization easier, faster, and more effective.

In a recent Fast Company article, nine CEOs said the biggest challenges their companies face are all related to change. Change is a constant need and a constant challenge for every organization—large or small, for-profit, nonprofit, or governmental. Is there a way to make it easier?

If you're trying to lift something heavy, it helps to have a lever. In this book, Jake Jacobs provides eight levers that can transform the typical change process into something far smoother and more efficient—he calls the new process Leverage Change. Jacobs offers proven advice and real-life examples that will accelerate every step of the change process, including designing your own customized change process, figuring out where the real energy for change is in your organization, striking the right balance between explicit direction and creative collaboration, making change work as part of people's regular routines, and more. Archimedes said with the right lever, he could move the world—with Jacobs' eight levers, you can change your world.

Table of Contents

  1. Cover
  2. Title Page
  3. Copyright Page
  4. Dedication
  5. Contents
  6. Preface
  7. Introduction: How to Gain the Most from Leverage Change
  8. 1: Pay Attention to Continuity
  9. 2: Think and Act as If the Future Were Now!
  10. 3: Design It Yourself
  11. 4: Create a Common Database
  12. 5: Start with Impact, Follow the Energy
  13. 6: Develop a Future People Want to Call Their Own
  14. 7: Find Opportunities for People to Make a Meaningful Difference
  15. 8: Make Change Work Part of Daily Work
  16. 9: The Power and Possibilities of Leverage Change
  17. 10: Taking Leverage into Your Own Hands
  18. Notes
  19. Acknowledgments
  20. Index
  21. About the Author
  22. Discussion Guide: Apply What You’ve Learned
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