"A valuable and useful step-by-step handbook for a range of practitioners and specialists who are involved with change in their companies."

"Bill Bridges has attacked an area of managing change that many not only avoid, but also do not even recognise - the human side of change. This is a valuable contribution.

Directed at managers and employees in today's corporations, where change is necessary to revitalise and improve corporate performance, Managing Transitions addresses the fact that it is people that have to carry out the change. It not only talks about what should be done, but also shows how to do it, giving managers practical and positive ways to bring everybody "on board". Whenever an organisation makes a change, its people have to deal first with an ending; then with a time in-between the old and the new that Bridges calls "the neutral zone"; and then with a new beginning.

William Bridges is the first to talk about what is going on inside the people who have to make the change work; and the first to provide any real sense of the emotional impact of change and what can be done to keep it from disrupting the entire organisation.

Directed at managers and employees in today's corporations, where change is necessary to revitalize and improve corporate performance, this guide addresses the fact that it is people that have to carry out the change.

2006-05-08 practical and well thought through techniques

This is one of the best books I have read on change management, which separates it from the dirth of publications which flood the market which don't offer anything new. A truly excellent publication.

It is primarily suited to those working in delivering change. I would also recommend it as a guide to sponsors, managers and team leaders, to understand what change feels like and compare their own experiences with those in other organisations. William Bridges writes from experience and this is very much a practical guide, suggesting techniques appropriate at each stage of change.

This publication is relatively light on the theory behind change. This is to its advanatge, however for those coming to these theories for the first time, it is best read in conjunction with a partner text which can provide more background to change and particularly the stages of change.