Preface

Collectively, we have been working on understanding organizational change for almost 50 years. What started for all of us while we were working as managers and leaders of a large consumer products company continued as a dissertation project and through our days as organizational and leadership consultants. In short, we have been engaged with the struggle to understand organizational change and transformation for what seems like our entire lives.

The immediate motivation for this project began nearly 9 years ago while we were helping the government of Botswana through a major transformation. After working with them for 2 years, one person within the government asked us what some generic lessons about organizational change are. He was ...

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