All Change!

Eddie Obeng is a Business Educator, Author of ten books (including two Financial Times best sellers), digital pioneer and world-class motivational speaker best known for his World After Midnight model (WAM) that makes sense of our 21st century challenges. His Global TED Talk shows why his models and tools work so effectively. Often referred to as ‘Prof HOW!’, Duke CE call him, ‘the Rock Star of Business Education’ and Red Bull ‘Human Red Bull!’

Book One: All Change

Prologue

Chapter 0: Fuller circle - All Change! Begins. And the relationship of the new edition to the 1990’s bestseller

Chapter 1: Full circle - In which examples of change are described The opening of the story and an introduction to some examples of change

Chapter 2: My old mate - In which the difficulties of successfully implementing change are discussed The narrator meets Franck who offers some home truths on the difficulties of implementing change

Chapter 3: Holding onto your gains - In which the hard and soft criteria of project success are established We establish the hard and soft criteria for project success and learn how to blow bubbles for the first time

Chapter 4: A panacea which can make you ill - In which the role of communication in change management is explored The narrator muses on past projects and learns about the role of communication in managing change

Chapter 5: Beware ANTS - In which the challenge of new world change is discussed A picnic is interrupted by ants as we are introduced to the concept of new world change

Chapter 6: Bubble No1 – Learning to learn - In which the position of communication is explored The position of communication and why you are doomed never to meet stakeholders’ expectations

Chapter 7: Bubble No2 – Recognising stakeholders - In which the Laws of Change are explained Our hero struggles with stakeholders balancing and the four Laws of Change

Chapter 8: So similar … yet so different - In which the different types of project change are described Invisible and visible projects, Paint by Numbers and three other project types

Chapter 9: Bubble No3 – Gaining perspective - In which stakeholder co-ordination and planning are investigated Stakeholder coordination and planning, and the revolutionary idea of the Perfect Project

Chapter 10: Bubble No4 – People and me - In which leadership and followership are explored Leadership, followership and the project team

Epilogue: Down the creek without a paddle - In which the problem of spreading ideas quickly is solved Our hero struggles with and overcomes the problem of how to share what he has learned

Book Two: The Project Leader’s Secret Handbook

Chapter 11: Purpose and type of change - You learn to work out the issues and challenges you face with your particular project or ‘chunk of change’

Chapter 12: Learning to learn Some of the main thinking, skills and behaviour frameworks that you can use to help you in developing your successful career of managing change in chunks

Chapter 13: Recognising stakeholders You will learn that it is not about who are your stakeholders but how you manage them (all).

Chapter 14: Planning, co-ordinating and risks All about continuously gaining and maintaining perspective, and spreading and using that perspective with your stakeholders.

Chapter 15: Working with and leading people What you need to know about the different types of leadership needed for different types of change.

Epilogue: Out of the circle - In which it is shown that future change need not be a repetition of the past.

Book Three: The Philosophy and Practice of Delivering ZERO Defect, Perfect Projects

Chapter 16: All joined up - In which the importance of integrating all change in an organisation is discussed. The importance of integrating All Change in an organisation. IT IS ALL QUITE SIMPLE In which the importance of setting up the right culture, rewards, processes and governance are explained. When an exam is all that stands in the way - In which I discover if my thinking is advanced enough to understand Perfect Projects IN PLAIN SIGHT, IF YOU PAY ATTENTION

Chapter 17: Day in the life of a perfect project - The importance of setting up the right culture, rewards, processes and governance.

Chapter 18: Practitioner insight You use a London Underground-style map as a blueprint for successful projects..

Chapter 19: Future prospects Why transforming the future starts with your own head.

Epilogue: Transformation, the next adventure

Book Four: MetaMorph, or How to Transform Beyond Change

Chapter 20: A framework for transformation Frank explains why you don’t ask a caterpillar to teach you to fly