William Bridges has 3 audiobooks on Listento.it, narrated by 3 narrators, with an average listener rating of 4.2★ across 10 ratings. The most-rated is Managing Transitions.
Transitions
Summary
The best-selling guide for coping with changes in life and work, named one of the 50 all-time best books in self-help and personal development Whether you choose it or it is thrust upon you, change brings both opportunities and turmoil. Since Transitions was first published, this supportive guide has helped hundreds of thousands cope with these issues by providing an elegantly simple yet profoundly insightful road map of the transition process. With the understanding born of both personal and professional experience, William Bridges takes listeners step by step through the three stages of any transition: The Ending, The Neutral Zone, and, eventually, 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 audiobook continues to apply and is perhaps even more relevant today, and a new chapter devoted to change in the workplace, Transitions will remain the essential guide for coping with the one constant in life: change.
©2004 William Bridges, Susan Bridges (P)2019 Da Capo Lifelong Books
Managing Transitions
Summary
The business world is a place of constant change, with stories of mergers, layoffs, bankruptcy, and restructuring appearing in the news every day. No matter the scale, when these kinds of changes hit the workplace, the concrete situational shifts are often not as difficult for employees and managers to work through as the psychological transitions that accompany them. Organizational transitions affect people; it is always people who have to embrace a new situation and carry out the corresponding changes. Without a clear understanding of what transition does to employees and what employees in transition can, in turn, do to an organization, the job of managing workplace change can be difficult. Managed poorly, the result can be disastrous for morale and stability. As veteran business consultant William Bridges explains in detail, successful organizational change takes place when employees have a purpose, a mental picture, a plan for, and a part to play in change. In short, successful change takes place only when employees are "on board" with it. Directed at managers on all rungs of the corporate ladder, this thoroughly updated and expanded edition of the best selling Managing Transitions provides practical, step-by-step strategies for reaching goals and minimizing the disruptions caused by workplace change. It is an invaluable managerial tool for navigating an inevitably tumultuous time.
©2003 William Bridges and Associates (P)2007 Gildan Media Corp
Creating You and Company
Summary
More and more, temporary workers, contractors, and outsourced employees are doing the work that once belonged to full-time, long-term workers. What is happening? William Bridges, President of William Bridges & Associates, explains why the conventional "job" is no longer the most effective way to get work done. He describes what tomorrow's workplace will be like and how individuals can cope with it - and even capitalize on it. Highlights include the power of personal desire, taking opportunity from change, and using the 5 Job Shift Steps.
(P) and ©1998 Stanford Alumni Association