Books on Transition


The writings of William Bridges have been helpful to me to understand the transition process. What many people see as alarming is normal. Mr. Bridges explains the process. “Transitions” is the theory. “Managing Transitions” is the implementation of the process. “The Way of Transition” is the way Williams Bridges dealt with the illness and death of his wife and evential remarriage. It is a good view of how the theory works in real life.

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Transitions: Making Sense of Life’s Changes, Revised 25th Anniversary Edition, by William Bridges
   1.  Being in Transition
   2.  A Lifetime of Transitions
   3.  Relationships and Transitions
   4.  Transitions in the Work Life
   5.  Endings
   6.  The Neutral Zone
   7.  You Finish with a New Beginning
   Epilogue

Managing Transitions: Making the Most of Change, by William Bridges
   1.  It Isn’t the Changes that Do You In
   2.  A Test Case
   3.  How to Get People to Let Go
   4.  Leaing People Through the Neutral Zone
   5.  Launching a New Beginning
   6.  Transition, Development, and Renewal
   7.  How to Deal with Nonstop Change
   8.  A Practice Case
   9.  Conclusion
   Afterward
   Appendix A:  Assessing Your Transition Readiness
   Appendix B:  Planning for Transition
   Appendix C:  Setting Up a Transition Monitoring Team
   Appendix D:  Career Advice for Employees of Organizations in Transition
   Appendix E:  The Leader’s Rose in Times of Transitin

The Way Of Transition: Embracing Life’s Most Difficult Moments, by William Bridges
   1.  Change and Transition
   2.  How I Rediscovered Transition
   3.  Why We Go Through Transition
   4.  Letting Go of My Life
   5.  The Way of Transition
   6.  My Intensive Course in Love
   7.  The Archtype of the Journey
   8.  Discovering My Vocation
   9.  Finding Myself in the Neutral Zone
10.  Transition and Elderhood
11.  Beginning a New Live
 An Epilogue


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