Deep change: discovering the leader within
For those on a path to slow career death - a path that also affects the competitiveness, progress, and overall health of the organizations in which we work - Deep Change offers a survival manual for finding our own internal leadership power and learning the most important skill of all to triumph in the face of change: to "know thyself." Exploring the dynamic process of deep change and learning the new ways of thinking and behaving it requires can put an end to the slow death dilemma forever. In…
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- Full title :Deep change : discovering the leader within / Robert E. Quinn.
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For those on a path to slow career death - a path that also affects the competitiveness, progress, and overall health of the organizations in which we work - Deep Change offers a survival manual for finding our own internal leadership power and learning the most important skill of all to triumph in the face of change: to "know thyself." Exploring the dynamic process of deep change and learning the new ways of thinking and behaving it requires can put an end to the slow death dilemma forever. In defining this process, author Robert E. Quinn, a renowned expert on organizations and management, demonstrates the crucial importance of deep change as the path to self-understanding and the key to revitalization of the individual and the organization. By finding our own moral core and beginning to see ourselves and our organizations in new and more productive ways, he explains, we can transform ourselves from victims to powerful agents of change
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- Publication Date:©1996.
Publication Statements
- Publisher(s):Jossey-Bass Publishers
- Place of Publication:San Francisco, Calif
- Language:eng
- Publication Date:©1996.
The Physical Object
- Description:1 online resource (xix, 236 pages) : : illustrations
Edition Identifiers
- ISBN:0585254273, 9780585254272
- oclc:ocm45728815
- LC Classification:HD58.8
- Dewey Decimal:658.4/06
Table of Contents
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 xhange -- 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.
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