Handbook Catalog

After the Merger: The Authoritative Guide for Integration Success (Hardback)

Provides a clear look at the tasks and problems of post-merger integration. The first book ever written on merger integration strategy, it was named "one of the best business books of the year" by Library Journal.  >more

The Art of M&A Integration: A Guide to Merging Resources, Processes & Responsibilities

The Art of M&A Integration, Second Edition, supplies the expert insight, analysis, strategies, and tools you need to successfully manage every aspect of a post-merger integration.>more

The Breakthrough Principle of 16x: Real Simple Innovation
for 16 Times Better Results

A realistic, ready-to-use innovation process for doing things differently, with no more effort or energy, to get 16 times better results.  >more    >video clip

Business As UnUsual: The Handbook for Managing and Supervising Organizational Change

A "quick impact" manual for executives, middle managers, and supervisors, with 27 guidelines for successfully managing change. >more

Carpe Mañana: 10 Critical Leadership Practices for Managing Toward the Future

Tomorrow comes at us with ever-increasing speed. Start shaping its possibilities this very moment with 10 leadership behaviors that will seize the possibilities of the future. >more

The Comeback

Gives the support, self-insight, and coaching that employees need to relaunch their careers successfully after a layoff. >more

Complete Set of PRITCHETT Handbooks:

Refer to this library over and over as your company encounters new change situations, such as merger/acquisition, reorganization, culture change, etc. >more

Culture Shift: The Employee Handbook for Changing Corporate Culture

Provides an entirely new mindset for your staff, quickly transforming behavior through the entire organization to create a more flexible, adaptable culture.  >more

Deep Strengths: Getting to the Heart of High Performance

Deep Strengths Provides a new model and approach for "strength training" that you can put to work in your organization. >more

The Employee Guide to Mergers and Acquisitions

Answers the hot questions about what happens during a merger and provides 10 easy-to-follow "survival steps" on how to make a positive contribution. >more

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The Employee Guide to Mergers and Acquisitions answers the hot questions about what happens during a merger and provides 10 easy-to-follow "survival steps" on how to make a positive contribution. >more

The Employee Handbook for Organizational Change

Clears up the 11 damaging "myths" about change and offers the reader 9 guidelines for becoming a change agent. >more

The Employee Handbook for Shaping Corporate Culture: The Mission Critical Approach to Culture Integration and Culture Change

Delivers a crucial all-employee message on the "how-to's" of culture integration and change while distributing accountability for the change effort throughout the organization. >more

The Employee Handbook of New Work Habits for a Radically Changing World

New Work Habits uses hard facts and powerful logic to corner the reader with the reality of how he or she must change because of the radical shifts in the world. >more

The Employee Orientation Library

Set new hires off on the right foot and guide them toward A Player performance with these 5 best-selling handbooks. Contains our top sellers in subjects ranging from teamwork to change, all for a special discounted price. >more

The Ethics of Excellence

Use this handbook to deliver the critical message that the ethical standards of each employee can shape the organization's future. Excellence is a process, not just an outcome. >more

Fast Growth: A Career Acceleration Strategy

Provides a breakthrough strategy for career acceleration, increased competency, and maximum employability. Gives 12 high-performance guidelines to achieve job security and career success. >more

Firing Up Commitment During Organizational Change: A Handbook for Managers

You need high job commitment in your organization right now—people who are committed to the results that
count. >more

The 4^th Level of Change: 10 Practices for Top Performance During Global Uncertainty

Positions your workforce to navigate productively through today's troubled and uncertain times. Coaches people beyond a "victim mindset" to achieve resilience and personal effectiveness. >more

HardOptimism: How to Succeed in a World Where Positive Wins

Helps your people develop the thought patterns that build resilience...that serve as a buffer against stress...that energize, empower, and enhance performance in virtually all circumstances. >more

High-Velocity Culture Change: A Handbook for Managers

A direct, usable, real-world message on how to change corporate culture, with 22 specific guidelines for high-velocity transformation. >more

Improving Performance: How to Manage the White Space on the Organization Chart (Hardback)

This book is "the process bible" for anyone interested in performance improvement consulting. It provides the foundation and key building blocks for PRITCHETT's flagship process improvement approach: ePIP (electronic Process Improvement Project). >more

Joining Forces: Making One Plus One Equal Three in Mergers, Acquisitions, and Alliances

Mitchell Lee Marks and Philip H. Mirvis, who separately and together have worked on more than 50 major corporate "marriages," offer a useful distillation of the myriad lessons they've learned about this vital and increasingly common business activity in Joining Forces: Making One Plus One Equal Three in Mergers, Acquisitions, and Alliances. >more

The Leadership Engine: Building Leaders at Every Level

Information and exercises to help tap your leadership potential. Based on the best-selling hardback, The Leadership Engine: How Winning Companies Build Leaders at Every Level, by Noel Tichy and Eli Cohen. >more

The Leadership Engine: How Winning Companies Build Leaders at Every Level (Hardback)

Named one of the best business books of 1997 by BusinessWeek and Library Journal, this best-selling hardback by Noel Tichy and Eli Cohen describes a proven system for creating dynamic leaders at every level. >more

Making Mergers Work: A Guide to Managing Mergers & Acquisitions

Offers specific suggestions on how to avoid the high cost of merger failure, improve productivity, protect market share, and overcome resistance. >more

Managing Sideways: Using the Rummler-Brache Process Improvement Approach to Achieve Performance Breakthrough

Gives the most important ground rules and critical success factors for becoming a process-centric, performance-driven organization. Pritchett's precise, no-fluff style of writing gets down to the basics of what everyone needs to know about process improvement to take action and get results fast. >more

Managing the Merger: Making It Work

Takes you behind the scenes, examining dozens of successful as well as poorly managed corporate marriages. The book shows you what's really required to achieve the best possible integration. Best practices in banking, heath care and high tech, technology, and many more industries are reviewed. >more

The Mars Pathfinder Approach to "Faster-Better-Cheaper":
An Employee Handbook on Innovation

Co-authored with Brian Muirhead, Flight System Manager of the JPL Mars Pathfinder Team, this book shows how a small group of dedicated people—tapping into the spirit of ingenuity and innovation—proved that "faster-better-cheaper" works. >more

Merger Library

PRITCHETT wrote the first book ever published on merger integration stragety, then wrote the all-time best seller on mergers, then another couple dozen handbooks on mergers and change. >more

Mergers: Growth in the Fast Lane

Written for every senior and mid-level manager, the handbook provides 10 guidelines on how to win in the new merger game. >more

MindShift: The Employee Handbook for Understanding the Changing World of Work

Shows what's driving today's high-velocity change, where it's taking us, and how we need to reframe our thinking to fit the new realities of today's world. >more

Outsourced: 12 New Rules for Running Your Career in an Interconnected World

Provides 12 new rules for running your career in an interconnected world. Reviews how to shift loyalties, prepare to work in new ways, stretch yourself, and focus on the customer. >more

Positive Leadership: DVD

Effectively communicates how the core of leadership comes down to managing yourself. >more

Pursuit Journal

A key component of the new You² Protocol—the Pursuit journal—is available for individual purchase. >more

The Quantum Leap Strategy

A high-velocity formula for penetrating imaginary barriers and achieving dramatic breakthroughs. >more

Resistance: Moving Beyond the Barriers to Change

Resistance can be the number one barrier to achieving speed, creativity, and adaptability. This handbook shows your staff, from top to bottom, how to re-channel precious energy, get aligned, and focus on moving your organization
forward. >more

Service Excellence!

Lays out both the "how to" and the "payoff" for giving outstanding customer service. Examines seven common roadblocks to quality service and offers a strategy for becoming a service champion. >more

Smart Moves: A Crash Course on Merger Integration Management

Identifies the 16 essential guidelines that protect the organization's productivity, people, and profits during a merger. >more

Solution ^#1: The Handbook for Workplace Fitness & Health

This handbook is too powerful—too engaging—for your people to ignore. Use it to cut healthcare costs and mobilize your organization toward wellness. >more

A Survival Guide to the Stress of Organizational Change

Shows employees how they can avoid 15 basic mistakes that create major stress in the workplace. >more

Team ReConstruction: Building A High Performance
Work Group During Change

Gives managers a powerful 14-point plan for regrouping when work groups get hit by change. The focus is on immediate recovery—mobilizing the group, marshalling its resources, and energizing employees. >more

Teamwork: The Team Member Handbook

Basics for creating a tightly-knit, high-powered team are laid out in 16 guidelines—a message that inspires, coaches, and deputizes each employee to take responsibility for overall team results. >more

Topgrading: How to Hire, Coach and Keep A Players

The platinum standard for hiring, coaching and keeping top talent. Based on the best-selling hardcover book, Topgrading, by Bradford D. Smart, Ph.D., this handbook highlights the essential elements for building a team of A players. >more

Topgrading: How Leading Companies Win by Hiring, Coaching and Keeping the Best People

In this fully revised and updated edition of his best-selling management classic, Brad Smart describes exactly how leading companies have embraced topgrading to build a team of A players. >more

The Unfolding

A handbook for living strong, being effective, and knowing happiness during uncertain times. >more

Topgrading DVD Toolkit

Learn how to simplify your life and turbocharge your career by hiring, coaching and keeping A Players! Get smart… get skilled… and get ahead!>more

then [now] next: A Career Transition Kit

then [now] next provides you a low-cost and effective way to support your employees who are losing their jobs.>more

you²: A High-Velocity Formula for Multiplying Your
Personal Effectiveness in Quantum Leaps

A high-velocity formula for achieving the performance breakthroughs required in today's fiercely competitive
world. >more

The You² Protocol

Use the You2 Protocol to inspire and engage and make quantum leaps in performance.

What's Next?: The Hard Core Truth About How to Get Hired

What's Next? boils down the latest job-related research and gives you the know-how you need. No more winging it. No more wasted effort on a time consuming trial and error approach. >more

Charging Back Up the Hill: Workplace Recovery After Mergers, Acquisitions and Downsizings

Just as organizations have survived other recessions, they will come through this latest one-but they will need help to recover from it. >more

The Art of M&A: A Merger Acquisition Buyout Guide

Authoritative and completely up-to-date, this latest edition of The Art of M&A is an unsurpassed, one-stop guide to every facet of mergers and acquisitions that enables you to make winning deals with complete confidence. >more

The Art of M&A Structuring: Techniques for Mitigating Financial, Tax, and Legal Risk

The Art of M&A Structuring provides real-world advice for determining the most advantageous structure of a merger, acquisition, or buyout. >more