Managing Transitions: Making the Most of Change

From the most trusted voice on transition, a thoroughly updated and expanded edition of the classic guide to dealing with the human side of organisational change.

Directed at managers and employees alike in today’s business world where constant change is the norm and mergers, redundancy, bankruptcy and restructuring have become common phenomena, Managing Transitions addresses the fact that it is people that have to embrace a new situation and carry out the corresponding change.

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.

In this thoroughly updated and expanded second edition of the bestselling Managing Transitions, (over 400,000 copies sold) Bridges has added five new sections of specific advice about practical issues and a completely new chapter on the developmental ‘life cycle of an organisation, illustrating how many of the most difficult changes that an organisation needs to deal with come from its movement from one life-phase to the next.