Ph.D. Manns - More Fearless Change: Strategies for Making Your Ideas Happen

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Strategies for Making Your Ideas Happen

Mary Lynn Manns

Linda Rising

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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Manns, Mary Lynn, 1955
More fearless change : strategies for making your ideas happen / Mary Lynn Manns, Linda Rising.
pages cm
Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN 978-0-13-396644-2 (pbk. : alk. paper)ISBN 0-13-396644-5 (pbk. : alk. paper)
1. Organizational change. 2. Technological innovations. 3. Industrial management. I. Rising,
Linda. II. Title.
HD58.8.M2624 2015
658.406dc23
2014048042

Illustrator: Payton E. James

Copyright 2015 Pearson Education, Inc.

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ISBN-13: 978-0-13-396644-2
ISBN-10: 0-13-396644-5

Text printed in the United States on recycled paper at Courier in Westford, Massachusetts.
First printing, March 2015

The hard part of change is enlisting the support of other people. Whether a top manager interested in improving your organizations results or a lone developer promoting a better way of working, this book will give you tools and ideas to help accomplish your goal. Best of all, theyre presented in small, digestible bits.

George Dinwiddie, independent coach and consultant, iDIA Computing, LLC

More Fearless Change is a great book. Through real experiences and concise analysis, Linda and Mary Lynn identify patterns that will help change leaders quantify the situations they often face. From there, they provide practical advice for dealing with and overcoming them. I found every pattern in More Fearless Change took me back to a specific place and time where I struggled to find the right approach to articulate my great new idea and connect with the people around me. I went from conference talks and challenging questions from skeptics to meetings with colleagues where I failed to convey practical new solutions, or to quiet times on my own where I was downright frustrated with my progress. Linda and Mary Lynn have patterns for each that helped me think through to practical, positive solutions and prepare for the future. For a topic as challenging as organization change, its rare to find a collection of patterns that are as powerful as those youll find in More Fearless Change.

Neil Johnson, principal hardware consultant, XtremeEDA

More secret sauce for positive organizational change! Mary Lynn and Linda make it sound so easy, but using their building blocks, it actually is. With books like these, change agents wont run out of steam while resistors will run out of excuses.

Jochen (Joe) Krebs, author of Going Lean, Agile coach, trainer, speaker, and incrementor

Keep the patterns in this book and Fearless Change handy. Whenever you are frustrated by an intractable problem, choose a pattern to try. If you still dont get the desired results, try another. Others will join in your efforts, and youll feel the satisfaction as small successes start to add up. These patterns transformed me from an ineffective voice in the wilderness to a valued collaborator.

Lisa Crispin, co-author (with Janet Gregory) of Agile Testing: A Practical Guide for Testers and Agile Teams (Addison-Wesley, 2009) and More Agile Testing