1. Resistance To Change A Guide To Harnessing Its Positive Power

Harvey and Elizabeth A. Broyles skillfully present an important and provocative, theory-based, and practical book on change. Highly readable and loaded with strategies to help today's leaders and organizations understand and navigate through the realities and challenges of change. A must-read for all.'

-Lawrence Kemper, former superintendent; president of Association of California School Administrators 'Harvey's Building Teams. Building People has been my bible for working with team conflicts. The timing of Harvey and Broyles's latest book, Resistance to Change, could not be more divine. In this accelerated pace of change in the workplace, resistance to change is to be expected. Harvey and Broyles's strategies to deal with such resistanceto change organizational culture, to deal with insecurity and fear of failure, to build trusting relationships, to create personal connections with change, and to implement a theory of small winswill be the reference for successful leaders.' -Rich Thome, educational leader in residence, School of Leadership and Education Sciences, University of San Diego 'Resistance to Change is an insightful, commonsense approach to plan and manage change in today's volatile environment of diminishing resources. This is an easy read for all levels of management in the public or private sector.

Resistance To Change A Guide To Harnessing Its Positive Power

It provides a practical framework to successfully implement change. It is a practical guide full of analyses that illustrate how important the change process is in this era of diminishing resources.' -Martin Lomeli, city manager for over twenty-five years in La Verne, Rose Mead, and West Covina, California. Harvey is a professor of organizational leadership in the doctoral program and the Abrahams Chair in Leadership Excellence at the University of La Verne, California.

He has been the dean of the School of Organizational Management for fourteen years and is the author of several books including Checklist for Change; The Practical Decision Maker; Building Teams, Building People; The Soul of Leadership; and The Politically Intelligent Leader. Broyles is an adjunct faculty member for the College of Education and Organizational Leadership and the College of Business and Public Management at the University of La Verne. In addition, she has been a consultant for nearly twenty years, providing a wide range of organizational development services to nonprofit, educational, religious, and government organizations.