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Leading in a Culture of Change
Michael Fullan Manufacturer: Jossey-Bass ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback Similar Items:
Accessories: ASIN: 0787987662 |
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"At the very time the need for effective leadership is reaching critical proportions, Michael Fullan's Leading in a Culture of Change provides powerful insights for moving forward. We look forward to sharing it with our grantees." "Fullan articulates clearly the core values and practices of leadership required at all levels of the organization. Using specific examples, he convinces us that the key change principles are equally critical for leadership in business and education organizations."
--John Evans, chairman, Torstar Corporation
"In Leading in a Culture of Change, Michael Fullan deftly combines his expertise in school reform with the latest insights in organizational change and leadership. The result is a compelling and insightful exposition on how leaders in any setting can bring about lasting, positive, systemic change in their organizations."
--John Alexander, president, Center for Creative Leadership
"Michael Fullan's work is remarkable. He masterfully captures how leaders can significantly improve their learning and performance, even in the uncontrollable, chaotic circumstances in which they practice. A tour de force."
--Anthony Alvarado, chancellor of instruction, San Diego City Schools
"Too often schools and businesses are seen as separate and foreign places. Michael Fullan blends the best of knowledge from each into an exemplary template for improving leadership in both."
--Terrence E. Deal, coauthor of Leading with Soul
Business, nonprofit, and public sector leaders are facing new and daunting challenges--rapid-paced developments in technology, sudden shifts in the marketplace, and crisis and contention in the public arena. If they are to survive in this chaotic environment, leaders must develop the skills they need to lead effectively no matter how fast the world around them is changing.
Leading in a Culture of Change offers new and seasoned leaders' insights into the dynamics of change and presents a unique and imaginative approach for navigating the intricacies of the change process. Michael Fullan--an internationally acclaimed expert in organizational change--shows how leaders in all types of organizations can accomplish their goals and become exceptional leaders. He draws on the most current ideas and theories on the topic of effective leadership, incorporates case examples of large scale transformation, and reveals a remarkable convergence of powerful themes or, as he calls them, the five core competencies.
By integrating the five core competencies--attending to a broader moral purpose, keeping on top of the change process, cultivating relationships, sharing knowledge, and setting a vision and context for creating coherence in organizations--leaders will be empowered to deal with complex change. They will be transformed into exceptional leaders who consistently mobilize their compatriots to do important and difficult work under conditions of constant change.
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Helpful.......2007-08-03
Great Read.......2007-07-03
Leading in a Culture of Change.......2007-02-09
Useful and realistic take on leadership.......2007-01-13
Great resource tool!!!!.......2007-01-05
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Leading in a Culture of Change Personal Action Guide and Workbook
Michael Fullan Manufacturer: Jossey-Bass ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback Similar Items:
ASIN: 0787969699 |
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Leading in a Culture of Change: Personal Action Guide and Workbook is an essential companion to Michael Fullan's bestselling book, Leading in a Culture of Change. This practical guide is designed to help leaders in all sectors (corporate, education, public, and nonprofit) manage and drive productive change within their organizations.The workbook is filled with illustrative case examples, exercises, and resources that you can use with individuals or groups. It will help you (and any change agent) integrate the five core competencies—attending to a broader moral purpose, keeping on top of the change process, cultivating relationships, sharing knowledge, and setting a vision and context for creating coherence in organizations—and empower you to deal with the issues of complex change.
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Leading Innovation: How to Jump Start Your Organization's Growth Engine
Jeff DeGraff , and Shawn Quinn Manufacturer: McGraw-Hill ProductGroup: Book Binding: Hardcover Similar Items:
ASIN: 0071470182 |
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Leading Innovation presents a unique, holistic approach to creating innovation at all levels of your organization. Authors Jeff DeGraff and Shawn Quinn have created a real-world, how-to playbook of integrated creativity tools and techniques for understanding where innovation comes from and harnessing its power to create a culture where real growth happens on a constant basis.
Based on DeGraff's proven methods-which he teaches in his innovation program at the University of Michigan Ross School of Business and has applied at Fortune 500 companies around the world-this breakthrough guide focuses on systematically integrating business practices and connecting them to the value propositions they produce. You'll discover how to diagnose obstacles to innovation, realistically assess your options, and develop an integrated program of action that can be adjusted to meet the needs of any group, department, or business unit throughout your organization.
You'll learn the 7 key steps to double-digit growth, sparking innovation in your:
Throughout, insightful case studies demonstrate how these results-driven methods are supported by senior leadership at GE, Reuters, Coca-Cola, Pfizer, Johnson & Johnson, Eaton, and other leading innovators.
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Useful Guide for Transforming Organizations from Within.......2006-10-21
Unique Paradigm for Growth.......2006-10-18
Practical and Refreshingly New Ideas.......2006-10-05
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Paradigm Found: Leading and Managing for Positive Change
Anne Firth Murray Manufacturer: New World Library ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback Similar Items:
ASIN: 1577315332 |
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This book is more than meets the eye..........2007-07-12
Prepare to be exposed to new, exciting concepts by an amazing author!.......2006-11-11
Packed with management tips.......2006-09-24
Paradigm Found Indeed!.......2006-08-10
Social Change Dynamism.......2006-08-09
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Leading Culture Change in Your Software Organization: Delivering Results Early
Rita Chao Hadden Manufacturer: Management Concepts ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback ASIN: 156726123X |
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The Effective Way to Produce Improvements for Project Management and Software Engineering! Leading Culture Change in Your Software Organization: Delivering Results Early is the first industry-specific guide to managing change. You ll find today s best strategies for quick wins and long-term gains when managing Software Process Improvement (SPI) and culture change. You ll: Learn how to deliver successful outcomes, using a targeted set of recommended actions, effective leadership, and social and psychological drivers Get first-hand knowledge from organizations that have successfully transformed the work habits and practices of their software professionals Discover techniques that you can apply immediately to maximize project success regardless of your organization s infrastructure or level of technical sophistication.Customer Reviews:
Practical Ideas to Stimulate Discussion & Get Results.......2006-07-15
Best practices that work!.......2003-11-01
What I particularly like is the incremental approach using the five best practices in Chapter 2. The big-bang hammer approaches, which I have lived through and can, relate to in Chapter 4, just don't work!
I have used the author's best practices for my last three projects and the results were very successful: Project 1 - no major bugs found during end user acceptance testing, implemented three days early; Project 2 - implemented on-time with a satisfied user community; Project 3 - again, no showstopper issues during user acceptance resulting in a product that was delivered as expected by the user community. The suggested best practices do in fact work.
This book is my guide and reference for managing software implementations. I highly recommend it!
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Adaptive Enterprise: Creating and Leading Sense-And-Respond Organizations
Stephan H. Haeckel Manufacturer: Harvard Business School Press ProductGroup: Book Binding: Hardcover Similar Items:
ASIN: 0875848745 |
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In today's fast-changing marketplace, a business can't expect to thrive by just making products and selling them, argues Stephan H. Haeckel in Adaptive Enterprise. "It does not matter how good you are at making widgets if the market for widgets disappears or if your competitors offer dramatically new and improved widgets faster than you can," writes Haeckel, director of strategic studies at IBM's Advanced Business Institute. Instead, for a company to succeed nowadays, says Haeckel, it needs to know how to adapt to customers--even before they themselves know what they want. Haeckel lays out a strategy to create such a "sense-and-respond" approach that will allow companies to move quickly amid change. Among the key steps: companies must use innovative ways to gather information about customer needs. For instance, car manufacturers used video cameras in airport parking lots to discover that people often struggle to lift heavy suitcases over the high lower edges of trunks. In mall parking areas, the cameras revealed that shoppers had nowhere to put soft drinks they just bought. Now, low trunk edges and cupholders are standard features in almost every car. Because "sense-and-respond" is a relatively new business model formulated by Haeckel, the book is heavy on theory and slim on concrete examples. Nevertheless, Adaptive Enterprise has some good ideas for business leaders looking for an edge in a world where rapid change is the norm. --Dan RingBook Description
Unpredictable, discontinuous change is an unavoidable consequence of doing business in the Information Age. Because this intense turbulence demands fast - even instantaneous - response, many large companies are fragmenting themselves into smaller, quick-response units. But in doing so, they relinquish important advantages of scale and scope. Is it possible to have it both ways? Can large, complex firms adapt successfully and systematically to unexpected change?Yes, says Stephan Haeckel, but only if leaders learn how to manage their organizations as adaptive systems. In Adaptive Enterprise, Haeckel updates the concept of the corporation for the Information Age with a radical and comprehensive rethinking of organizational strategy, structure, and leadership. He outlines the new sense-and-respond business model that is helping companies systematically cope with the unexpected.
Haeckel argues that when unpredictability is a given, the only strategy that makes sense is a strategy to become adaptive - to sense early and respond quickly to abrupt changes in individual customer needs. As a result, a firm's operations must be driven by current customer requests - implicit as well as articulated - rather than by plans to make and sell what customers are forecasted to want in the future.
Here, for the first time, is a clear and comprehensive strategy for transforming firms into adaptive systems.
Adaptive Enterprise is both a new way of thinking about business and a handbook for leadership of postindustrial organizations. It maps out, with examples and illustrations, a step-by-step plan that companies can use to transform themselves into a new type of organization - one in which change is not a problem to be solved, but rather an indispensable source of energy, growth, and value.
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A new vision.......2007-08-27
Looking for Guidance in eCommerce - its not here.......2000-06-27
Not enough detail to warrant the read or to get a real idea of how you would implement the concepts.
If you are looking for guidance on eCommerce and competing in hyper competition. It is not here.
The Future of Service Industries.......1999-12-22
Paul T. Kidd
Command and control in complex adaptive systems.......1999-12-07
Overtly he argues that the shift from a make-and-sell orientation to a sense-and-respond orientation is a major piece of unfinished business for organisations. The reason that he can argue this is that he 'bundles' the issue of customer responsiveness with the much wider issue of complexity and unpredictability in the environment - in other words, he argues that it is not possible to be truly customer responsive if you do not also recognise complexity in markets.
Beneath this surface argument that the new complexity requires new approaches and its characterisation as a move to 'sense-and-respond', lies the real issue, which is the defence of command-and-control from devolution of control, which the author characterises dismissively as 'communicate-and-hope'. The author develops a framework which is designed to retain the essential features of command-and -control, while building flexibility and responsiveness. He argues that forms of governance that challenge command-and-control have only been effective in smaller and simpler organisations than the giants with which he is primarily concerned. By extension, he argues that they can not work in such organisations.
The core of his prescription is the ability of central management to provide central direction to the organisation by the use of an analogy to 'fly by wire' technology. In other words, he advocates the use of modern technology to keep central management informed of unpredictable change so fast that they can respond appropriately within tight time deadlines. When a 'modular' approach to structuring organisations is added, he argues that they can respond effectively not only to the generality of customers but to particular customers. However, the question of relationships with internal stakeholders - employees - does not figure in his schematic, nor does the issue of external alliances and partnerships. Both (separately and together) challenge the capacity of command and control: it is not just customers and markets.
A book full of really wonderful gems.......1999-11-16
In one sense, there is little that is completely new in this book. But, what a gem, where else have all the essential pieces been put together in such a logical and user friendly fashion?
I note that reviewers have not yet reached the Annexures. Using the "Adaptive Decision Process" resulted in the most exciting and valuable discussion of high level business strategy that I have ever been involved with. Debating with my management team the many strategic choices that were available to us in about 35 areas was a time consuming exercise. It took all of a day! As we progressed we found that we had developed about five possible strategies for the future. We were rather confused as to how we would make the many choices. Then came the enlightenment from modeling the financial impacts of each. We discovered that there were only a few choices that had significant financial impacts. And for once the entire management team was agreed on what these few vital choices involved. Talk about a powerful management process! This very powerful approach is hidden in an Annexure. Readers be warned, there is gold in the pages of this book, but there is so much that it is easy to miss much of it.
Another gem is the Commitment Management Protocol. My dream is to computerise this in such a manner that my email in box becomes my "promise" list showing what I owe to whom when, and what who owes to me when. Performance management becomes quite simple. This is despite the fact that we are now in an era when jobs can no longer be planned, scheduled and delivered according to schedule because those troublesome folk, our customers, do not want the standard services or products our assembly lines are designed to deliver. They want something almost unique to them.
The idea of "negotiating" conditions of satisfaction makes so much sense that I cannot believe it has taken so long for someone to write about it.
My congratulations to Steve Haeckel on a great addition to "wisdom literature".
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Cultural Matters: Lessons Learned from Field Strategies of Several Leading School Reform Strategies (Understanding Education and Policy)
Manufacturer: Hampton Press ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback ASIN: 1572734787 |
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Cultural Matters.......2006-05-11
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Leading In High Growth Asia: Managing Relationship For Teamwork And Change
Manufacturer: World Scientific Publishing Company ProductGroup: Book Binding: Hardcover ASIN: 9812388699 |
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Confronted with rapid changes and market-place pressures, managers throughout Asia are questioning their leadership. This book will help them integrate their traditions with modern practices to forge approaches suitable for their cultures and effective for today's global market demands. It also help Western managers adapt their methods so that they can lead successfully in Asia-Pacific.To be successful, Asia-Pacific leaders must work to develop effective, close relationships with their employees and among their employees. Chapters written by scholars from ten Asia-Pacific countries highlight this common theme and also describe the expectations and orientations which managers can expect in a particular country.
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Leading professional learning: think 'system' and not 'individual school' if the goal is to fundamentally change the culture of schools.(professional learning ... An article from: School Administrator
Michael Fullan Manufacturer: Thomson Gale ProductGroup: Book Binding: Digital ASIN: B000L4320U Release Date: 2006-11-27 |
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This digital document is an article from School Administrator, published by Thomson Gale on November 1, 2006. The length of the article is 3139 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.
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Medical Situational Awareness Advanced Concept Technology Demonstration: leading the acquisition culture change.(In the News): An article from: Defense AT & L
Nicole Kratzer Manufacturer: Thomson Gale ProductGroup: Book Binding: Digital ASIN: B000GB8TA6 Release Date: 2006-06-13 |
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This digital document is an article from Defense AT & L, published by Thomson Gale on May 1, 2006. The length of the article is 1326 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.Books:
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