Who Killed Change?

Solving the Mystery of Leading People Through Change

Every day organizations around the world launch change initiatives - often big, expensive ones - designed to improve the status quo. Yet 50 to 70 percent of these change efforts fail. A few perish suddenly, but many die painful, protracted deaths that drain the organization's resources, energy, and morale.

Who or what is killing change? That's what you'll find out in this witty whodunit. The story features a Columbo-style detective, Agent Mike McNally, who's investigating the murder of yet another change. One by one, Agent McNally interviews 13 prime suspects, including a myopic leader named Victoria Vision; a chronically tardy manager named Ernest Urgency; an executive named Clair Communication, whose laryngitis makes communication all but impossible; and several other dubious characters.

The suspects are sure to sound familiar and you're bound to relate them to your own workplace. In the end, Agent McNally solves the case in a way that will inspire you to become an effective Change Agent in your own organization. A step-by-step guide at the back of the book shows you how to apply the story's lessons to the real world. Key questions help you evaluate the health of your organization's change initiatives, and you'll learn best practices for enabling and sustaining the desired change.

©2009 Polvera Publishing and John Britt (P)2020 Tantor

If you Manage Change-give a read!

If you’ve ever lead a change effort, you will relate to this easy and entertaining, yet relevant read. I was laughing out loud as the detective interviewed the communication, sponsor, budget, culture, and vision characters! I’m recommending this for any of my project improvement leaders AND leadership!!

very easy to understand the topic

I always enjoy the proceed style of learning. Daniel is an excellent Narrator. I listen at 1.7x and this is very easy to follow at the faster speed.

I need to read it again

I loved the story telling aspect. I need to reread to get more clarity

It’s a good summary

The book is light and summarizes the challenges and it could be nice to have a story told but I didn’t like the end part when he started to be commercial and market his services.

LOVED THIS!!!

Didn’t expect the murder mystery story side of being taught leadership and emotions. It really forced me to be present to listening. Great job to the narrator for taking on multiple personalities and voice changes to showcase the different characters and really reminded me of the movie “in and out”