Price Pritchett

Price Pritchett is a business advisor, speaker, and author specializing in mergers, culture, and organizational change.

Biography

Born December 14, 1941, near Glenwood, Arkansas.

In 1974, he founded the Dallas-based Pritchett & Associates (now PRITCHETT, LP), the first firm in the U.S. to specialize in merger integration strategy. Pritchett’s work in mergers and change management spawned a popular series of small, tightly written handbooks covering an array of topics including mergers, large scale change, leadership, culture, plus personal and organizational performance.

Books

Mergers & Acquisitions

• After the Merger: Managing the Shockwaves
• Making Mergers Work: A Guide to Managing Mergers and Acquisitions
• The Employee Guide to Mergers and Acquisitions
• Smart Moves: A Crash Course on Merger Integration Management
• Mergers: Growth in the Fast Lane

Change Management

• Deep Strengths: Getting to the Heart of High Performance (Release Date: October, 2007)
• Business As UnUsual: The Handbook for Managing and Supervising Organizational Change
• The Employee Handbook for Organizational Change
• The 4th Level of Change
• Firing Up Commitment During Organizational Change
• Resistance: Moving Beyond the Barriers to Change
• A Survival Guide to the Stress of Organizational Change
• Team ReConstruction: Building a High Performance Work Group During Change
• Teamwork: The Team Member Handbook
• MindShift: The Employee Handbook for Understanding the Changing World of Work
• Outsourced: 12 New Rules for Running Your Career in an Interconnected World
• The Unfolding: A Handbook for Living Strong, Being Effective, and Knowing Happiness During Uncertain Times
• The Employee Handbook of New Work Habits for a Radically Changing World
• The Employee Handbook of New Work Habits for the Next Millennium

Culture

• High-Velocity Culture Change: A Handbook for Managers
• The Employee Handbook for Shaping Corporate Culture: The Mission Critical Approach to Culture Integration and Culture Change
• Culture Shift: The Employee Handbook for Changing Corporate Culture

Individual Performance

• Fast Growth: A Career Acceleration Strategy
• The Ethics of Excellence
• Hard Optimism: Developing Deep Strengths for Managing Uncertainty, Opportunity, Adversity, and Change
• The Mars Pathfinder Approach to “Faster-Better-Cheaper”: An Employee Handbook on Innovation
• You 2 (squared): A High-Velocity Formula for Multiplying Your Personal Effectiveness in Quantum Leaps
• The Quantum Leap Strategy
• Service Excellence!
• Solution #1
• The Comeback
• What's Next?

Leadership

• Carpe Mañana: 10 Critical Leadership Practices for Managing Toward the Future
• Managing Sideways: Using the Rummler-Brache Process Improvement Approach to Achieve Performance Breakthrough