Organizational Change

The most complete book on this page. Eight lessons covering change models, problem diagnosis, planned change techniques, resistance, the steps of an OD programme, and the ethics and politics that come with it.

Guru Jambheshwar University

A practical toolkit for anyone actually running a change initiative. It breaks the work into pre-work, sponsorship, stakeholder analysis and communication planning, with worksheets you can fill in as you go.

University of California, Berkeley

Eight tools for leading a change effort, one per stage: a readiness rubric, a stakeholder strategizer, a resistance reducer and a scale and sustainability score sheet among them. Each comes with a worked example.

Jody Spiro

A step by step playbook written for public sector managers, with worksheets attached. It moves from preparing for change through managing it to making it stick, and names what usually goes wrong at each step.

State of Washington Office of Financial Management

A UNDP resource on institutional reform, built around what has actually been learned from change efforts inside public bodies. The annexes carry case studies, practitioner tools and a checklist of the warning signs of failure.

United Nations Development Programme