"Transitions takes readers step-by-step through the three perilous stages of any transition, explaining how each stage can be understood and embraced. [It provides] an elegantly simple yet profoundly insightful roadmap for successfully navigating change and moving into a hopeful future:
Endings: Every transition begins with one. Too often we misunderstand them, confuse them with finality - that's it, all over, finished! Yet how we recognize endings is key to how we can begin anew.
The Neutral Zone. the second hurdle of transition: a seemingly unproductive time-out when we feel disconnected from people and things in the past and emotionally unconnected to the present. Yet the neutral zone is really a time of reorientation. How can we make the most of it?
The New Beginning. In transtions we come to beginnings only at the end, when we launch new activities. To make a successful new beginning requires more than simply persevering. It requires an understanding of external signs and inner signals that point the way to the future.
William Bridges is a consultant and lecturer based in Mill Valley, California. Formerly a professor of English, he made a shift to the field of transitional management in the mid-1970's; out of his workshops grew a long career of helping others through transitions. Past president of the Association of Humanistic Psychology, Bridges was rated by The Wall Street Journal in 1993 as one of the ten most popular executive development consultants in the United States. He is the author of the bestselling Transitions, JobShift, Creating You & Co., and The Way of Transition. "
-- excerpt from book jacket © Da Capo Press |
