The book gives good advice on managing change and brings out effectively how in every adverse situations, leading companies have used their own people to emerge from crisis. It illustrates that change can be brought about by rejiging roles, creating greater bonding opportunities and forgoing partnerships.

The book is a classic in the area of managing change. There are several books on 'managing change', but what sets this book apart is its different tone and tenor, its 'storytelling' technique and its critical, in-depth and practical treatment of the subject matter. The reader finds a blend of philosophy and pragmatism, which makes the book all the more exclusive of its kind.

If you always do what you have always done you will always get what you always got. The book is encapsulated with practical wisdom. The book has takeaways relevant to any individual or enterprise embarking on the process of change management. The book also balances inputs on hard and soft tracks of transition management. Hard track is Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) and Business Process Re-engineering (BPR). Soft track is the transformation of the company, its people, its culture and its values.

The chapter on ‘Walking the tightrope-change stories' brings out effectively how in very adverse situations, leading companies have used their own people to emerge from the valley of death. Rejigging roles, creating greater bonding opportunity and forging partnerships brought change without plan.

According to the authors, the game of change warrants clarity in decision-making a good deal of practice, rehearsal, courage, spontaneity, and above all a positive bent of mind. While those with strong willpower and a decisive mind find the moments of suspense to be exciting and challenging, the timid and the negativists find the same moments alarming and dreadful!

Easy to grasp business lingo, amusing examples like that of a boiled frog, uncomplicated yet in depth analyses and creative scenarios coupled with relevant quotes by masters mark this matter of fact musing by Moid Siddiqui and RH Khwaja, old hands in the playing field. One of the remarkable chapters is that which deals with the different roles of the self - Columbus, artist, judge, Sufi and warrior and how each derives strength from the other to brave the anchorlessness that change causes.

The book represents a remarkable piece of scholarship. The title succinctly talks about all the changes happening in any organisation. Change is necessary in this world. The book is very practical and very direct. It is simple but has a profound approach.

CEOs, entrepreneurs, directors, business consultants, professionals in all fields and students of management would find it worthwhile to make a dig at this worthy investment. The management techniques are told with the skills of a story writer which creates curiosity, engages the attention right through and to derive the moral of the story. The moral is, it is time to locate and discard most of the routine practices which worked yesterday, but are no more relevant in the context. Take snap decisions like an acrobat and leam from failures.