The Change Leader's Roadmap: How to Navigate Your Organization's Transformation, Second Edition

FOREWORD

Compared with other disciplines, the field of change management is a relative newcomer. As a discrete field of practice, its theoretical roots can be traced back to the late 1940s/early 1950s. Among executive ranks, widespread knowledge of its existence didn't come about, however, until the 1960s—and even then, it was considered an obscure specialty for human resource or organization development types. It wasn't until the 1980s that it developed any real degree of acceptance from the line side of business, and it wasn't until the 1990s that it became an accepted strategic tool for senior officers. Today, change management has come into its own and is considered a must for most organizations engaged in critically important change efforts. ...