ABSTRACT
For managers, pressures and problems are not only greater than ever before, but they are experiencing different problems. Their tried and tested solutions do not seem to work anymore. It seems that managers are being asked to dance a new dance to the old music. This chapter presents some of the views of certain management scholars, namely Ralph D. Stacey, Meg Wheatley, late Fred Emery and Bob Dick, on the topic of strategic change. Organizations are trying to respond quickly to external changes and think more imaginatively about the future. Many change writers and managers share some central ideas about what is involved when change happens. Stacey draws attention to three different types of change for developing the model of strategic leadership: closed change, contained change and open-ended change. Contained change has elements of being close to certainty and close to agreement. It differs from closed change in that it is not as certain and agreement is not as absolute.
