Deep Change: Discovering the Leader Within

ISBN-13: 9780787902445 / Angielski / Twarda / 1996 / 256 str.

Robert E. Quinn

Opis

Don't let your company kill you

Open this book at your own risk. It contains ideas that may lead to a profound self-awakening. An introspective journey for those in the trenches of today's modern organizations, Deep Change is a survival manual for finding our own internal leadership power. By helping us learn new ways of thinking and behaving, it shows how we can transform ourselves from victims to powerful agents of change. And for anyone who yearns to be an internally driven leader, to motivate the people around them, and return to a satisfying work life, Deep Change holds the key.

Recenzje

"Deep Change should be mandatory reading for every business leader seeking the strength, direction, energy, and inspiration to shape organizational transformation." –Thomas C. Jones, president, CIGNA Individual Insurance.

Spis treści

Preface
Part One: Deep Change or Slow Death
1. Walking Naked into the Land of Uncertainty
2. Confronting the Deep Change or Slow Death Dilemma
Part Two: Personal Change
3. The Fear of Change
4. The Heroic Journey
5. Finding Vitality
6. Breaking the Logic of Task Pursuit
7. A New Perspective
8. Confronting the Integrity Gap
9. Build the Bridge as You Walk on It
Part Three: Changing the Organization
10. Denying the Need for Change
11. Finding the Source of the Trouble
12. When Success Is the Engine of Failure
13. The Tyranny of Competence
14. The Internally Driven Leader
Part Four: Vision, Risk, and the Creation of Excellence
15. Overcoming Resistance
16. From Manager to Leader
17. Why Risk is Necessary
18. The Transformational Cycle
19. Excellence is a Form of Deviance
20. Confronting the Undiscussable
21. A Vision from Within
22. The Power of One
23. The Power of Many

O autorze

ROBERT E. QUINN helps business and goverrnment leaders understand the paradoxes, competing demands, and contradictons of organizational life through his teaching, consulting, and his published works. He is professor of organizational behavior and human resource management at the Graduate School of Business, University of Michigan–Ann Arbor and consults with hundreds of organizations, including Fortune 500 companies, public agencies, and volunteer organizations.

Blurb

Robert E. Quinn has written a survival manual for anyone trying to stay afloat in a constantly changing organization. Through a series of stories, Quinn offers a new path that will help people in the trenches of today′s modern organizations move beyond daily struggles into a position of peace, power, freedom and influence.Deep Change explores the process of internally driven leadership?where the most important skill is to "know thyself." It is not only about change management but also a new way of thinking about change and how it affects our lives. The author inspires readers to discover new ways of seeing and responding?allowing them to see themselves and their organizations in new and more productive ways.