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Title: Deep Change : Discovering the Leader Within by Robert E. Quinn ISBN: 0-7879-0244-6 Publisher: Jossey-Bass Pub. Date: 31 July, 1996 Format: Hardcover Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $27.00 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.4 (10 reviews)
Rating: 4
Summary: A passionate appeal for personal change
Comment: Ghandi would be proud. This book if for all the bosses that rant and rave about how everyone else needs to change. The author of this book says that organizational change begins with the "man in the mirror," and that time is of the essence.
The book is easy to read, lots of white space for you to spit or cry when the author leads you down one more set of reasons why we must all take up profound personal change at some time in our life. If not, he argues, we face a slow psychological death. The author also helps us recognize that we're really laughing at ourselves when we read Dilbert in the morning funnies.
The author is a well-respected academic, which makes his message even more impressive (and he gives several examples of leading change in higher education). For those of you still yearning for the joys of graduate school, fear not, he doesn't miss the chance for some self-promotion of his prior research on organizational values. It adds some rigor to his ideas.
Generation Xers are not likely to find this book very helpful, it reaches out much more effectively to those 40-somethings still searching for a singular formula for life and leadership. Each chapter ends with 1-2 pages of self-reflective questions. There are 2 or 3 gut grabbers, but by and large you'll still need to keep your therapy appointment to figure out how to use Quinn's ideas in your daily life.
A wonderful by-product of reading this book is the chance to steal his wonderful quotes and pick up some new phrases (e.g., "getting lost with confidence"). He also describes several exercises that can be used (there's a great case study about a couple where only one person is a non-smoker) and he outlines an interesting leadership development program from the University of Michigan.
Overall, this book requires little investment and really gets you thinking. If your life as a successful leader isn't helping you be all the you can be, then put this one in your shopping cart!
Rating: 5
Summary: Slow death or deep change...the only two choices?
Comment: My job as an associate pastor in a large church has me coordinating a number of support groups. These groups include Divorce Recovery, Grief Support for Death of a Loved One, Alcohol and Drug Addictions, Weight Control, and more. I believe this book may hold some of the key to success in helping people move through change.
I also believe that Robert Quinn is correct when he maintains that people and organization have but two main choices...
1. Slow death, or 2. Deep change
Quinn maintains that today it is impossible to remain the same because everything around us is changing, and therefore we must change.
Early in his book, on page 6, he says, "It is now widely recognized that to remain competitive in today's global enviroment organizations must frequently make deep change. What is not so widely recognized is that organizational members must also make deep change."
He continues by saying, "...an organic organization is one that is responsive, acts quickly and in coordinated way, and can adjust and learn and grow." "...only organic individuals can create an organic organization."
Rating: 5
Summary: Change, die or exist
Comment: Organizations and people adapt to their environments and change, or they die or they merely exist.(become the walking dead in Quinn's words) However, there are times when something more than evolution is needed and that revolution is called "deep change". Quinn outlines why so many people in so many organizations see the need for change, but the leaders just talk or say, "I told them to change" and the followers wonder why nothing ever happens. Quinn offers explanations for why the change frequently does not take place and then gives examples of how it can and has happened in other places.
He gives us hope that perhaps things can change. In any case he helps us to learn to be the transformational leader, if we look inside and if we are willing to face the pain of change.
Another reviewer pans Quinn for concentrating on the pain of change, but I have seen few people change without pain of some sort motivating them and even fewer organizations. I am a life coach and therapist and helping people change is my business, but there usually is a motivator for the change and with most people and organizations it is pain of some sort.
This book, while not a difficult read causes thought and is therefore a great read. Highly recommended. Thank you Dr. Quinn for being real with us.
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Title: Change the World : How Ordinary People Can Achieve Extraordinary Results by Robert E. Quinn ISBN: 0787951935 Publisher: Jossey-Bass Pub. Date: April, 2000 List Price(USD): $29.95 |
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Title: Building the Bridge As You Walk On It : A Guide for Leading Change by Robert E. Quinn ISBN: 078797112X Publisher: Jossey-Bass Pub. Date: 02 April, 2004 List Price(USD): $27.95 |
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Title: Leading Change by John P. Kotter ISBN: 0875847471 Publisher: Harvard Business School Press Pub. Date: 15 January, 1996 List Price(USD): $24.95 |
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Title: Communication Skills Profile by Elena Tosca ISBN: 0787909025 Publisher: Jossey-Bass Pub. Date: 10 June, 1997 List Price(USD): $15.00 |
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Title: Powerful Conversations: How High-Impact Leaders Communicate by Phil Harkins, Philip J. Harkins, Warren G. Bennis ISBN: 0071353216 Publisher: McGraw-Hill Trade Pub. Date: 07 June, 1999 List Price(USD): $24.95 |
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