MBA 6150: Leading People and Managing Processes

The Center for Creative Leadership, reports on the responses of 148 leaders about a change they successfully completed in the last year.

These time-honored tools and techniques can help companies transform quickly. And watch the video, “How to Lead Change Management.”

Change leadership is the ability to energize groups who will be implementing change. This article looks at the levels of change leadership competency on a behavioral scale starting with the most basic level of skill and moving to the most complex level.

White paper from the Center for Creative Leadership.which discusses in more detail the research regarding how 275 executives handled change and what made some changes successful and some not. See "What 275 Executives Said About Change-Capable Leadership" for a summary

Article from Forbes discusses how change management is the new requirement for leadership success.

Published by Business Enterprise Mapping, this resource discusses the important qualities needed in a leader to bring change to an organization.

From the Center for Creative Leadership, this article discusses the 3 C's of effective change leadership and strategy for leading the change process.

From Psychology Today, a brief summary of why people fear change and the dilemma leaders face when trying to implement change in the face of resistance.

Discusses why people resist change saying it is better to anticipate objections and know how to overcome resistance to change than to proceed without making this part of your change management plan.

From the Business section of the Houston Chronicle Online, details several things that cause change to be resisted.

After surveying 148 senior executive leaders about changes they su\ccessfully implemented (see 3 Key Skills for Successful Change), the Center for Creative Leadership then surveyed 127 executives about an unsuccessful outcome.

ICPSR is the world's largest collection of digital social science data which can be used for secondary research, instructional activities, and to write articles, papers or theses - set up MyData account to begin. First-time users will be asked to create an ICPSR MyData account which must be done from an on-campus computer. Once the account is created, access is from anywhere. The account remains active for 6 months, after which time it must be reactivated from an on-campus computer.

Data repository hosted by Harvard University. It covers datasets from various academic disciplines, including social sciences, health, and economics.

Repository supporting open science data sets and collaboration.

Repository that hosts data from a wide range of academic disciplines, including biology, ecology, social sciences, and more. It aims to promote data sharing and reuse in the scientific community.

Access qualitative and multi-method research datasets housed at Syracuse University. QDR allows researchers to store and preserve data and provides consultation through their Data Management Plans (DMP). Users will need to create an account in order to download data.

Main repository that collects and disseminates data sets collected and disseminated by the government.