Navigate Change With Ease: A Guide To Managing Transitions By William Bridges, Ph.D.

FlatScissors: I needed to read this as part of a training course and it chimed with my experiences. Worth a read if you are a people manager.

United Kingdom on Aug 08, 2021

Betty: Got for counselling studies but would be good for anyone interested in managing life's changes in any situation whether in personal life or business

United Kingdom on Aug 17, 2020

Amazon28: Sehr gut erklärt mit guten Beispielen, das Konzept ist sehr gut nachvollziehbar, durch Fragen am Ende des Kapitels wird der Inhalt nochmal gefestigt

Germany on Sep 28, 2016

Velociraptor: Hier kann man die Grundlegenden Ansätze des Change Managements nachlesen. Meines Erachtens ein Standardwerk. Das verwendete Englisch ist sehr gut lesbar. Viel Wert wird auf die Darstellung der psychologischen Zusammenhänge bzw. Interdependenzen gelegt.

Germany on Sep 23, 2016

Jenna L.: This book was excellent! I read it for my MBA Corporate Strategy and Structure class, and it was extremely beneficial. This book is ALL about managing changes within the company, and Bridges has a wonderful set of theories to go along with the readings. There are a whole bunch of quizzes to take, too, to see where you are at with your transition and if your team is transitioning properly. My favourite part of the book was the Life Cycle Analysis-- describing Bridges' phases a company goes through when it is growing from infancy to senior. Very informative book, easy to read, and easy to relate to!

Canada on Feb 11, 2016

Anthony Sikorski: Read this book for school, it was decent and taught me a bit but some things just seemed like common sense. An active teacher who participates and works with their students is always better than a book.

United States on May 14, 2014

Sally Scammell: Working with a non profit in transition, I came across this book. It gave me words for what I was observing in many around me, and then action steps for how to calm the anxiety that was forming in hearts as one change seemed to come after another. Because it deals with human reactions to change and transition, it applies in many settings beyond business. Plus there are insightful directives for leaders who are aware of change coming long before others and already had time to process it personally. The author reminds those leaders to walk patiently with the people they lead as the people need to walk through the internal emotional/intellectual process and cannot immediately "jump on board" for all things new! The author has practical points for speeding up that process so the whole team stays in synch.

United States on Apr 03, 2014

D. Smith: This book is great! I was/am dealing with some pretty significant transitions -- the sudden death of my 21 year-old daughter, and a major division re-org at an S&P 500 company. Several months earlier, my VP had mentioned the book and suggested that all of his direct reports to read it. I did and it really hit home.

The author does an excellent job of describing the emotional and organizational impact of change and the mechanics of the process we use to get through it. We use the same basic process to deal with all change -- personal and professional -- and it has been very helpful to understand how it works. There is also a section in the book about the life cycle of an organization and that was illuminating. The book provided some tools to help me make critical decisions.

I bought six copies of the book and have given them out to friends and co-workers.

United States on May 13, 2007

Armando L. Franco Carrillo: Being an IT consultant, two of my main concerns are Project Management and Change Resistance. The combination of these two usually helps or dooms a project. "Managing Transitions" is the first book I have read that focuses on HOW to deal with change, instead of staying only in the WHAT should change, or WHY change is necessary.
In summary, "Managing Transitions" divides change into beginning, transition, and closure. It also suggests taking people's feelings into account, and giving them as much information as can be given, in order to get the trust of the ones going through change.
It gets four stars because in most chapters it talks about upper management as knowing exactly what has to be done, and it is only at the end that it acknowledges they may be wrong too. Since this is a book directed to managers, that is understandable. Most of its focus is in showing superiors how to lead their subordinates through change. However, it also devotes one chapter to explain how to deal with personal change.
With 125 pages, it is easy to read. In this "Who Moved my Cheese?" age, Bridges book is getting much less attention than it deserves.

United States on Jul 27, 2002

Desert Husker: William Bridges is one of the world's leading experts in the area of managing the human side of change. Bridges originally introduced the notion of "transition" in his first book, Transitions: Making Sense of Life's Changes (1980), which was a primer on coping with the tumultuous life changes we all face on a personal level. In Managing Transitions, Bridges applies the concept of transition within the context of organizational change.
Bridges asserts that transition is not synonymous with "change." A change occurs when something in the external environment is altered. In an organizational setting this would include changes in management, organizational structure, job design, systems, processes, etc. These changes trigger an internal psychological reorientation process in those who are expected to carry out or respond to the change. Transition is this internal process that people must go through in order to come to terms with a new situation. Unless transition occurs, change will not work.
Bridges believes that the failure to identify and prepare for the inevitable human psychological adjustments that change produces is the largest single...

United States on Feb 24, 2000