Leading Change in a Web 2.1 World: How ChangeCasting Builds Trust, Creates Understanding, and Accelerates Organizational Change (Innovations in Leadership (Hardcover))

Recent advances in Web 2.0 technology enable new leadership processes and guidelines that can create great value for organizations. In this important new book—the first title in the new Brookings series on Innovations in Leadership—management expert Jackson Nickerson proposes a combination of processes and guidelines utilizing Web 2.0 technology, which he refers to as Web 2.1, that will not only lead and direct change in an organization but actually accelerate it. He calls this set of processes and guidelines ChangeCasting, and it should be an important part of any organization s leadership toolkit. Leading Change in a Web 2.1 World provides fresh insights into why people and organizations are so difficult to engage in change. It explains how web-based video communications, when used in accordance with ChangeCasting principles, can be a keyway to building trust and creating understanding in an organization, thereby unlocking and accelerating organizational change. Nickerson introduces us to two Fortune 1000 firms facing dire economic and competitive circumstances. Both CEOs attempted extensive organizational change using web-based video communications, but one used ChangeCasting while the other did not—Nickerson details how ChangeCasting produced positive financial results for the former. He also discusses how ChangeCasting principles were used so successfully by the Barack Obama presidential campaign in 2008. The insights presented here will be invaluable to business executives, public officials, students of management and organizations, and anyone who needs to take organizational change from the drawing board to successful implementation and replication. Recent advances in Web 2.0 technology enable new leadership processes and guidelines that can create great value for organizations. In this important new book—the first title in the new Brookings series on Innovations in Leadership—management expert Jackson Nickerson proposes a combination of processes and guidelines utilizing Web 2.0 technology, which he refers to as Web 2.1, that will not only lead and direct change in an organization but actually accelerate it. He calls this set of processes and guidelines ChangeCasting, and it should be an important part of any organization s leadership toolkit.__Leading Change in a Web 2.1 World__ Nickerson introduces us to two Fortune 1000 firms facing dire economic and competitive circumstances. Both CEOs attempted extensive organizational change using web-based video communications, but one used ChangeCasting while the other did not—Nickerson details how ChangeCasting produced positive financial results for the former. He also discusses how ChangeCasting principles were used so successfully by the Barack Obama presidential campaign in 2008. The insights presented here will be invaluable to business executives, public officials, students of management and organizations, and anyone who needs to take organizational change from the drawing board to successful implementation and replication. Provides A New Personnel Management Model Called Changecasting, Based On Web 2.0 Technology, That Organizations Can Use To Bring About Change And Encourage More Dynamic Organizational Structure And Communications, With Examples Of How Successful The Model Has Been In Practice--provided By Publisher. A New Tool For Leaders -- Managing Change : The Fundamental Test Of Leadership -- Why Leading Change Is So Difficult -- Enabling Organizational Change -- Accelerating Change In A Web 2.1 World -- Changecasting Guidelines : The Message -- Changecasting Guidelines : The Delivery -- Changecasting Guidelines : The Video -- Technology For Managing Changecasting -- Did Changecasting Improve Performance? -- Should You Adopt Changecasting? Jackson Nickerson. Includes Bibliographical References And Index. "Provides a new personnel management model called ChangeCasting, based on Web 2.0 technology, that organizations can use to bring about change and encourage more dynamic organizational structure and communications, with examples of how successful the model has been in practice"--Résumé de l'éditeur