Barriers to Change - How Managers Overcome Them Together with Their Teams

By Plamen Petrov

          "Extremely interesting reading, with real examples from corporate life. It makes you think, stop, stop again think and look at things from another perspective. The questions at the end of each chapter are very suitable for application and would help to deal with quite a lot of team situations. The book would serve us as a guide on how to continue the change." Boris Sarabeev, Site Manager, Modis

 

 "Crystal clear, focused, and engaging. Plamen helps every thinking, working and conscientious person to cope with the unknown and the inconvenient. The book creates opportunities and solves the chronic problems of each team. Remarkable reading!" Ekaterina Karpuzova, Managing Director, Bayer Bulgaria EOOD

 

   "A must-read for every manager! I found in it inspiration, a plan, instructions, ideas, solutions, mind-provoking questions! Everything you need for a manager determined to embark on his adventure by analyzing, planning, and taking action to change yourself first and to see the world with "new" eyes! The book contains more than just answers and tips to problems I have encountered in my work with different teams, but also additional questions, which have helped me rethink things from a different angle and will even help me solve the same or similar cases in the future! I was inspired by many of the ideas for a clear plan, implemented in small steps, arranging priorities, having assertive communication, and the realization that we are responsible for everything that happens to us in life, and only we can change the world around us by starting the transformation with ourselves first! The book "Barriers to Change" will help me from now on throughout my professional career to be not only a better manager but also a better person! Natalia Stoyanova-Peron, Program Director, Coreteck Bulgaria Ltd.

          "The book impresses me with understandable truths about teamwork, especially in the year when businesses have faced huge changes." Petrana Zaykova, Director, Tech Industry Bulgaria Ltd

 

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          The book "Barriers to Change: How Managers Overcome Them Together with Their Teams" is a follow-up to the books "Cold Shower for Managers" (2019) and "Park the Ego" (2020). The difference is that the new book includes more thought-provoking questions you can use as exercises in your team meetings.

          The book will be most useful to the managers, who will use its chapters for regular discussions with their teams, creating a space for a shared quest for answers to various questions regarding change and transformation. The book will help you structure your discussions and take a more rational approach to emotionally charged topics in teamwork.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Plamen Petrov
• Release date: Apr 4, 2021
• ISBN: 9781393374053

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"Extremely interesting reading, with real examples from corporate life. It makes you think, stop, stop again think and look at things from another perspective. The questions at the end of each chapter are very suitable for application and would help to deal with quite a lot of team situations. The book would serve us as a guide on how to continue the change." Boris Sarabeev, Site Manager, Modis

"Crystal clear, focused, and engaging. Plamen helps every thinking, working and conscientious person to cope with the unknown and the inconvenient. The book creates opportunities and solves the chronic problems of each team. Remarkable reading!" Ekaterina Karpuzova, Managing Director, Bayer Bulgaria EOOD

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A must-read for every manager! I found in it inspiration, a plan, instructions, ideas, solutions, mind-provoking questions! Everything you need for a manager determined to embark on his adventure by analyzing, planning, and taking action to change yourself first and to see the world with new eyes! The book contains more than just answers and tips to problems I have encountered in my work with different teams, but also additional questions, which have helped me rethink things from a different angle and will even help me solve the same or similar cases in the future! I was inspired by many of the ideas for a clear plan, implemented in small steps, arranging priorities, having assertive communication, and the realization that we are responsible for everything that happens to us in life, and only we can change the world around us by starting the transformation with ourselves first! The book Barriers to Change" will help me from now on throughout my professional career to be not only a better manager but also a better person! Natalia Stoyanova-Peron, Program Director, Coreteck Bulgaria Ltd.

"The book impresses me with understandable truths about teamwork, especially in the year when businesses have faced huge changes." Petrana Zaykova, Director, Tech Industry Bulgaria Ltd

"With concrete examples, techniques, and outright provocations, the book is an extremely useful guide to small steps towards big change." Ivan Ivanov, Director of Retail Banking Directorate, Bulgarian-American Credit Bank

"The book is honestly, practically, and frankly written and suitable for both new managers and those with more professional experience. It provokes you to want change and not to stop changing yourself." Ralitsa Yaneva, Head of Human Resources Development, CEZ Bulgaria EAD

"I read the book almost in one breath and it made me think again about so many topics that I know and teach others, but at the same time, I looked at them from a different angle. I really liked the style - short chapters on different topics and questions provoke you to realize where you are, where the team and the organization are, as well as the instructions from the author not to hurry, but to really focus on awareness. The book helped me to fully feel this ownership of the change processes, my role, and that of the team. The story at the very beginning about the immersion in water and the desire to breathe, as well as the moment of stress, woke me up to open my mind even more to the following chapters. I am currently the main driver in the change of a team and reading the first few chapters, I totally changed the direction in which to continue working with them. If I have to summarize in one sentence: The book is empowering and awakens the feeling of ownership, encourages action and develops you to make changes happen."  Magdalena Pencheva, Manager of Attraction and Development of Talents, Kamenitza AD

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"This book is an important guide for those who have realized that change starts with themselves when they ask the right questions, looking for the answers within themselves. And there is no way they can't find them, especially if they have taken a cold shower. and have parked the ego. Petya Koleva, HR Director, GlassCo LTD

The book is an extremely useful tool for managers who want to find the root cause of what is happening in their teams. The negative effects are addressed directly and uncompromisingly. The guiding questions after each topic are the key for those who are ready for an honest dialogue with themselves. Mariana Kirova, Executive Director, Selmatic EOOD

This book is for managers who know that leadership is a long way of realizing and getting to know each other, looking inward, answering difficult questions. It is for new leaders who accept this role as a vocation. And for all those who are willing to be such. Nadya Mihova, HR Manager

"The book is in the usual style of the author. Accurate, clear, without unnecessary words, easy to understand. Provocative open-ended questions are a great ending to any of the chapters." Mihail Ganev, Operations Manager, Transpress

"The book is a useful and engaging read, a helpful tool to help us rethink and overcome the barriers we set for ourselves." Polina Yakimova, Financial and Administrative Director, Dimitrov, Petrov & Co. Law Firm.

"Every day we carefully build and maintain a kind of bubble of self-delusion that prevents us from seeing the world around us in its essence. The book you hold in your hands is the force that will allow you to free yourself from your bubble and begin the process of creating a sound self-awareness. This is the difference between a mediocre manager and a true leader, able to change himself and the people he works with in a positive way! " Milena Georgieva, Strategic Development Manager, ScaleFocus

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"The book is a natural continuation of the series for managers of Plamen Petrov, touching on and building on some of the topics in them, adding many new ones. The chapters are short, clear, and practical - they touch on current topics in the daily life of the manager who leads his team to change and end with specific questions that help for effective self-analysis. The questions and self-analysis give a serious  food for thought to any manager who wants to develop, helping him to realize his big plans in small steps. Zdravko Gerganov, Sales Department Manager, Inter Cars

"There is no more frequent and at the same time most denied circumstance in modern business but CHANGE. The book is a great read for leaders and teams, in their quest to deal with change and making it a success." Vanya Petrova, Marketing Data and Analysis Manager, DEXT

There is no one-size-fits-all management recipe, everything is very individual, but books like this help, through sifted methods, examples, matrices and approaches, to improve the environment, the work process, the team's skills and to higher efficiency of management itself. Sylvia Beyleryan

The book is a managerial source of 100% self-motivation for progressive enlightenment. By realizing what we have understood, we will overcome the fears of change in teamwork. Victor Kanakiev

Barriers to Change directs thought to an authentic approach to management. It assists managers in the process of self-awareness to stimulate their people to the same, to achieve symbiosis in the team, based on respect and support." Tanya Kalaydzhieva

The book is written in an understandable way for anyone who manages people! I highly recommend it to any manager who cares about self-improvement to rethink the fundamental things that we don't often do right. Arsen Kevorkian, Service Delivery Manager, C3i Europe

The book is a colorful menu of food for thought on topics and issues affecting the work atmosphere in each team and is a great continuation of the first two books (Cold Shower for Managers 2019 and Park Your Ego 2020), in the same concise, understandable and partly provocative style. The series is a must for any manager. Ivo Tsenov, Engineering Manager, Syncplicity by Axway

The book is exceptional and helped me first of all to test myself and then look at my own goals in a new way. I recommend it to every manager who is afraid, or not afraid, to try something new and different! Plamen Sofroniev, Security Manager

"I read it almost in one go. This is a book that every manager must read and own to have it on hand and often re-read it. A great and ingenious guide from which every manager (even those with extensive experience) can extract some wisdom to become even better. Be sure to prepare a few pencils, because in this piece of jewelry called book there are many important and interesting things that are nice to write down and remember quite well. Numerous interesting and useful experiences and facts that make you look forward from page to page to read the next ... And the next ... And the next ..." Plamen Kazakov, Modern Trade Manager Bulgaria and Romania, FICOSOTA Ltd.

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"I really liked the book because it focuses on a person's personal development. In this case, the author talks to managers, but in fact, this book works with our ego, which is the main element influenced by almost every philosophy or spiritual practice. The book is like a concentrated medicine for many disease, but to be absorbed, it must be digested with time and introspection." Ivomira Dimitrova, Import and Distribution Manager, MASTERHAUS

"The book gives a different perspective on repeated managerial mistakes, leading to confusion and looping on the path to change. It can be used as a guide to changing the pattern of behavior, both by novice managers and those who already have seen it