Building Organizational Capacity for Change: The Leader's New Mandate

William Q. Judge

Mar 2011 · Business Expert Press

About this ebook

This book offers an alternative to the traditional approach by focusing on building the change capacity of the entire organization in anticipation of future pressures to change. Based on systematic research of more than 5,000 respondents working within more than 200 organization or organizational units conducted during the previous decade, this book offers a clear and proven method for diagnosing your organizational change capacity. While building organizational change capacity is not fast or easy, it is essential for effective leadership and organizational survival in the 21st century.

About the author

William Q. Judge is the E.V. Williams Chair of Strategic Leadership and Professor of Strategic Management in the Management Department at the College of Business & Public Administration at Old Dominion University. Dr. Judge’s teaching, research, and consulting expertise is in the area of strategic leadership and organizational change. Dr. Judge currently serves as the Editor-in-Chief of Corporate Governance: An International Review. Bill was a U.S. Fulbright scholar to MGIMO University in Moscow in 2001. He earned his M.B.A. and Ph.D. degrees at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Prior to that, he worked within the strategic planning department at Armstrong World Industries, a Fortune 200 firm in the global home furnishings industry. During his career, he has earned five different teaching awards and helped to train over 50 strategic management doctoral students.