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Transitions: Making sense of life’s changes
by William Bridges

Whether it is chosen or thrust upon you, change brings both opportunities and turmoil. Since first published 25 years ago, Transitions has helped readers cope with these issues by providing an elegantly simple yet profoundly insightful roadmap of the transition process. With the understanding born of both personal and professional experience, William Bridges takes readers step by step through the three stages of any transition: The Ending, The Neutral Zone, and, in time, The New Beginning. Bridges explains how each stage can be understood and embraced, leading to meaningful and productive movement into a hopeful future. With a new introduction highlighting how the advice in the book continues to apply and is perhaps even more relevant today, and a new chapter devoted to change in the workplace, Transitions remains the essential guide for coping with the one constant in life: change.

Managing Transitions: Making the most of change
by William Bridges

The business world is a place of constant change, with stories of corporate mergers, layoffs, bankruptcy, and restructuring hitting the news every day. Yet as veteran consultant William Bridges maintains, the situational changes are not as difficult for companies to make as the psychological transitions. In the best-selling Managing Transitions, Bridges provides a clear understanding of what change does to employees and what employees in transition can do to an organization.

Directed at managers and employees in today’s corporations, Bridges shows how to minimize the distress and disruptions caused by change. Managing Transitions addresses the fact that it is people who have to carry out the change.

The Way of Transition: Embracing life’s most difficult moments
by William Bridges

When author Bill Bridges’s wife died from breast cancer, he began to question all his previous groundbreaking work on transitions. Having conducted seminars and written bestselling books, Bridges had built a reputation as an expert on the topic. And yet, "I felt now that my words had totally failed to match in depth the experience of actually being in transition," he explains.

After floundering in self-doubt for months after his wife died, Bridges embarked on a spiritual pilgrimage through Wales. During his visits to sacred sites, Bridges began to see that he hadn’t been misguiding people. Rather, he simply had more to offer on the subject of transition — more depth, more spirit, and above all else, more experience. So at 66 years old he wrote this highly personal book in which he examines the pain and challenge of transition — how it is a time of letting go of the past while taking hold of the future.

Crucial Conversations: Tools for talking when stakes are high
by Kerry Patterson, Joseph Grenny, Ron McMillan, Al Switzler, Stephen R. Covey

"Crucial" conversations are interpersonal exchanges at work or at home that we dread having but know we cannot avoid. How do you say what needs to be said while avoiding an argument with a boss, child, or relationship partner? Crucial Conversations offers readers a proven seven-point strategy for achieving their goals in all those emotionally, psychologically, or legally charged situations that can arise in their professional and personal lives.

Presence: An exploration of profound change in people, organizations, and society
by Peter M. Senge, C. Otto Scharmer, Joseph Jaworski, Betty Sue Flowers

Presence is an intimate look at the development of a new theory about change and learning. Wide-ranging conversations explore the nature of transformational change — how it arises, and the fresh possibilities it offers a world dangerously out of balance. The book introduces the idea of “presence” — a concept borrowed from the natural world that the whole is entirely present in any of its parts — to the worlds of business, education, government, and leadership. Too often, the authors found, we remain stuck in old patterns of seeing and acting. By encouraging deeper levels of learning, we create an awareness of the larger whole, leading to actions that can help to shape its evolution and our future.

The Tipping Point
by Malcolm Gladwell

"The best way to understand the dramatic transformation of unknown books into bestsellers, or the rise of teenage smoking, or the phenomena of word of mouth or any number of the other mysterious changes that mark everyday life," writes Malcolm Gladwell, "is to think of them as epidemics.”