Organizational transformation : How to achieve it, one person at a time. / Sean T. Hannah

While other authors have recognized that organizations must help their workers understand and psychologically embrace the need for change (e.g., Kotter, [6]), or unfreeze-change-refreeze psychologically as part of the change process (e.g., Lewin, [7]), Avolio identifies and describes for the reader many of the intricate psychological factors that underpin such processes. A strength of the book, and a differentiator from most other models of individual transformation, is Avolio's recognition that not all individuals are equally ready to change, or what he and Hannah have called developmental readiness (Avolio & Hannah, [1]; Hannah & Avolio, [3]). All told, Avolio demonstrates his mastery of and uncommon ability to integrate a wide set of psychological, leadership, and organizational research streams to create a detailed and theoretically sound model of individual-within-organization transformation. [Extracted from the article]