For many employees change is neither sought after, nor welcome; it's a disruption. To get people to committo buy into changeleaders need an approach that links the change effort to individual situations in a way that eventually puts employees back in charge of their own destinies. This book provides a pratical approach for getting employees to support change because they believe it's in their best interest.
Paul Strebel is Professor of Change Management and director of the executive program, Leading Corporate Renewal, to which executives bring live change issues, at IMD, the International Institute for Management Development in Lausanne, Switzerland.
He has directed a variety of incompany programs for IMD's business partners and associates and has worked privately for numerous multinationals, including most recently, Schroders, Nokia, Nestle, Bosch, World Bank and Coopers & Lybrand.
Professor Strebel is the author of Breakpoints: How Managers Exploit Radical Business Change. His publications have appeared in Harvard Business Review, California Management Review, Strategic Management Journal, Handbook of Business Strategy, plus many others, including numerous articles in the business press. He is on the editorial board of several change management journals.
Prior to his current position, he was director of research at Imede, one of the founding institutions of IMD. Professor Streel is Swiss, of South African origin, received his BSc (Hons) from the University of Cape Town, his MBA from Columbia University in New York, and his PhD from Princeton University.