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Fear, curiosity, exhaustion, loyalty, paranoia, optimism, rage, and revelation--not quite the kind of emotions that are anticipated or discussed when leaders embark on organizational change, but exactly the kind to expect, says Jeanie Daniel Duck in her treatise on the human element of growth. The Change Monster examines how to effectively plan for, address, and manage the least predictable and perhaps the most important aspect of a successful transformation.
Duck's experience with change has been widespread and varied. During an early career running her own consulting practice and more recent years spent as a senior vice president with the prestigious Boston Consulting Group (BCG), she has guided companies all over the world through the mountains and minefields of mergers, reengineering ventures, and strategic transformation projects. In the process, she has developed and refined her understanding of the five phases of the Change Curve, her own map of the territory of change. The monster in hibernation is the first of those phases, Stagnation, and it's awoken by forceful impetus from on high, through either internally or externally initiated change. Duck discusses both the signs of stagnation and various methods for recognizing the problem--the questions that need to be asked, the analyses that need to be conducted, and the appetite for change that needs to be generated. During the Preparation stage, there are essential tasks for the leaders (achieving alignment and commitment on vision, strategy, and values) that will provoke behavioral-change requirements of all members of the organization, and Duck introduces a BCG tool used to help assess the change bias of any organization. For the Implementation and Determination stages, Duck shares tips on walking the talk, being on the alert for human dynamics that threaten to derail the initiative, and communicating effectively, and offers advice on testing one's assumptions as a leader and staying involved with the process of change at all levels--strategies designed to lead the organization through to the final stage of Fruition. Throughout, Duck refers to the largely positive change experience of a real company, Honeywell Micro Switch, and the less-effective actions of a fictional merger between two pharmaceutical firms.
Duck has also spent time as an artist and teacher, occupations reflected in her understanding of how people cope with both the reality of change and the manner in which it's brought about. Though targeted at the change-management drivers of the business world, The Change Monster is infused with a sense of the effects of change in all areas of life. A sensitive exploration of an often-difficult process. --S. Ketchum
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A Powerful Look at Corporate Change and Why Mergers, Reorganizations, and Transformations Succeed or Fail
“[One of the] best business books of 2001 . . . [a] useful and intelligent tool for coping with the inevitable metamorphoses of business (and life).” —Miami Herald
“Provocative imagery . . . useful questions for managers to ask themselves.” —Harvard Business Review
“The Change Monster not only talks intelligently about the social dynamics and emotions of people [in change efforts], it does so with wisdom, insight, and practicality.”—Daniel Leemon, executive vice president and chief strategy officer, Charles Schwab Corporation
“A practitioner’s primer on revitalization that puts you in the shoes of some who have failed and others who have succeeded. In doing so, Jeanie Daniel Duck graphically delivers her main message to management: Learn to master the emotions and obsessions of those who stand in the way of change, including your own, and once you do, you have your hands on a miraculous engine for change.” —Michael Useem, professor of management and director of the Center for Leadership and Change at the Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania, and author of The Leadership Moment and Leading Up
“Duck is an acute and empathetic observer of the changes erupting in the workplace from the convulsive nature of corporate evolution. . . . Jeanie Duck’s terrific book is a . . . useful and intelligent tool for coping with the inevitable metamorphoses of business (and life). Sensitive but tough, Duck’s compassionate wisdom is street smart without a trace of glibness.” —Miami Herald
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The mental barriers as main obstacle!.......2006-03-09
All of us know how difficult results to initiate and moreover to undertake a true renovation of settled mental maps and old paradigms. As a matter of fact most of Managements pretend to reorder their organizational environment without primarily, undertaking an inner transformation.
This is an admirable and conspicuous essay what offers relevant clues and clever indications to undertake this breathtaking but fundamental attitude mental state. The essence of a continuous transformation implies a vital renovation ` s impulse from within ourselves.
An indispensable consult text in your personal library.
Learn to manage the human element in the change process.......2006-02-28
Many organizations change. Most try and plan it. Many fail. Many mergers and acquisitions fail to deliver as expected. Why?
Author Jeanie Daniel Duck cites the human element-how changing the corporate environment makes people feel. The author presents a five-stage framework for dealing with change called the "change curve." This change curve is designed for understanding and managing the human element of the change process. The five-stage process is as follows:
· Stage 1: Stagnation. This is the time that the organization can be depressed or demoralized. There is a general slowness, difficulty in making decisions, and a general lack of motivation.
· Stage 2: Preparation. Leaders of the change must accomplish the aligning and energizing of management around the corporate strategy and vision; articulating and detailing the plan; and generating a healthy dissatisfaction with the ways things are allowing for a genuine appreciation for change to come from within the workforce
· Stage 3: Implementation. Here the leader's ability to manage the expectations, experience and energy of the company is critical to the success of the implementation. The author recommends four methods to start this phase: test and deploy, build behavior first, use attraction to convert, and plan replication.
· Stage 4: Determination. This phase, marked with conflicts, clashes, failures, and minor successes, is only as successful as the degree to which top management stays involved and focused.
· Stage 5: Fruition. This stage is when the change is in place. This is a time to reward employees for their hard work. The company needs to move forward to avoid re-entering a period of stagnation.
Comforting.......2003-09-26
The change monster made me aware of the stages of change in a company: Stagnation,
Preparation, Implementation, and Fruition. Ms Duck seems to be an excellent consultant from the stories I read. The book seems oriented towards Human Resources types as the title suggests. My background is Information Technology consulting, so I found I related too only a few of her stories. I would say her stories were interesting and demonstrated how companies move through change stages arriving at fruition. Ms Duck reminences on her experience and draws important conclusions and abstractions from her experiences. Some of her experiences seemed familar while a larger portion were not as concrete. I could see how large organizations profit from her holositic view of change.
I'm sure her wisdom should not dismissed. I've read Jack Welch's books and reflected on the quantifiable and scientific approach to change and can see objective change can appeal rationally; however, Ms Duck seems to have produced change through insight and dramatic effects a vast range of companies and types. She seems to have a gift for perception and insight into the inner dynamics of the people that make change happen in a company. Duck hand holds her clients through change stages and comforts them by imparting wisdom that allows her client to see a "better way". This "better way" seems to have dynamic impacts on the production of the company. Once the barriers are removed the company matures and reaches fruition.
Good advice but plodding.......2003-02-15
I disagree with some of the other reviewers who say that the book is a good read. I felt that I didn't know where the book was going a lot of the time. When all was said and done, I was glad to be finished (sometimes I really had to push myself to keep going), but I did learn a lot about change management.
The Textbook on Human Emotions.......2002-06-17
The human nature lies in the very base of any organization. That is why organizations, including business ones, tend to behave like humans. Along their lives they pass through different stages, like stagnation, understanding the necessity of change, the transformation and either back to the stagnation or upward to the new level of consciousness or efficiency. However, very few books on the market consider the transformation process from the "human" point of view. That is from the prospective of human emotions. Ms. Duck is to be sincerely thanked for the attempt to close the gap.
The book shows that the emotions do really matter in the process of changes, and can easily abrupt the transformation, as well as make it successful. Interestingly, many consultants yet fail to recognize this obvious fact and prefer to deal with charts rather then with people and their complicated behavior. The author points out that the process of changes is somewhat constant to any business structure in the modern world - another conventional truth, which is often forgotten by CEOs and business leaders.
Meanwhile, the book fails to show how particular managing techniques help to resolve emotional problems on each stage of transformation. The examples from "real life" are somewhat chaotic and case studies are not well organized around the central idea (if there is any?). It is not clear what is the point of each particular story, including the glimpses of the author's biography in the beginning of some chapters and the end of the book.
That is why I would consider the book "a textbook", rather than "a manual" which can give you a systemic view on transformation and a set tools to deal with the process. For these purposes a reader is kindly advised to address to "Creative Destruction", a book written by direct competitors of Jeanie Duck - two McKinsey consultants. The other point of concern is that the author overemphasizes the role of an external consultant. Such an approach depreciates the value of the expertise brought into the book and gives an impression that Ms. Duck's judgments are biased ("you tend to fail if you don't follow a consultant's advice", the book's bottomline).
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Mysteries of the Universe: A Revolutionary Commentary on UFOs, Aliens, Angels, Pyramids, Bible Codes, Reincarnation, the Antichrist...
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This renaissance of thought is unlike anything you've read before! It will catapult you into an entirely new reality, unapologetically tackling the tough questions and controversial phenomena of our generation.
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Starts off good, but.............2007-10-12
This book was well written and starts off very good. However; towards the end the author has been totally deceived about George Bush. He proclaims Bush as a savior crusading against evil. The author forgets that the Bushes come from a very long line of traitors and evil doers. From Bushes Grandfather (Prescott) bank rolling Hitler and the Nazis, to Bush Sr's Drug Running in the Golden Triangle during his CIA days. Then we have little Bush, who worships Molech the Cananite God every year at Bohemian Grove.
The Author is right about a conspiracy, but doesn't realize that the same forces that put Clinton in power placed G.W. Bush there also. Which makes me question his other so called facts?
A BOOK THAT WILL CHANGE YOUR LIFE..........2007-09-12
I have read a lot of books and watched a lot of documentaries about the Biblical Prophecies, End Times, Armaggedon, etc. but this book still gave me a lot of new discoveries!! It's really amazing!! If there's 10 stars, I would definitely give it that rating. The author researched a lot. You can tell because what he/she wrote on the book, are the ones we have seen in different documentaries all around the globe. I admit that at first it's a little confusing. The Reincarnation is new because I am a Catholic, but the author clearly showed that Jesus indeed belived in Reincarnation. He even presented Bible texts regarding Reincarnation. This book is really trustworthy. I know God has a purpose why He let me read this book. There are a lot of controversies, but at the end the reader will realize that it's all connected. The words in this book are like pieces of the puzzle. At the end you'll learn the UNIVERSAL TRUTH. The texts are based from the Bible, History, Current Events, Scientific breakthroughs etc.!! I strongly believe in the writer. I know deep in my heart that God revealed the mysteries to the author. No person or writer can originally think of the revelations at this book. Besides the writer always remind the reader that it is God who revealed him the informations. He is very humble. Honestly I am thinking of ordering more copies and giving it to my loved ones and friends... I think the key to understanding this book is correlating it with all the knowledge we have(example: History, Life experience, etc.)and having FAITH IN GOD. THIS BOOK INDEED CHANGED MY LIFE! A MUST READ FOR ALL. THANKS GOD FOR LETTING ME READ THIS BOOK. MAY GOD BLESS ALL OF US!!
Unsure about this one.......2007-09-07
I have to admit I stopped reading this about half way. I do plan on finishing it soon though. So far a bit too much talk about "Karma" and "reincarnation" I am having a difficult time deciphering exactly what this person's stance is in regards to these pagan religions. I don't believe in reincarnation and believe it's not Christian. This author does do an interesting job of using some scripture to support what he/she is trying to say but some I think is misplaced. Truely I am undecided about this book. I have to say it started out pretty good and interesting though. Perhaps I will finish it and post more thoughts then. Right now I believe it is a mixture of truth and error.
A well written eye opener.......2007-07-26
The author writes with passion and heart. This isn't your typical work of nonfiction. The author isn't afraid to approach controversial subjects with some of the most original revelations to ever be put into print. He/she brings forth fresh ideas that would open the eyes of the most enlightened person, while maintaining a down-to-earth conversational tone that anyone can access. The writing is both eloquent and well researched. You must read this book!
Divine Intervention.......2006-02-04
Authors Gender ? not important ! Duality of conciousness in a Unified Field of Divine Grace , Yes ! A channeled complilation of missing pieces for those of us who are holding together ,And rising to the the knowlege and understanding of who we are , Where we are at , and where we want to go. The author was shown the passages from a higher source ! In a way that , Once again a teacher has manifested again to show us , The Way , The Truth , The Light ! We are loved , and protected and honored at all times , And whatever you ask for , You shall receive ! More than obvious this comes from a higher source. We are infinite Love !
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- Avoid this and avoid wipeouts.
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Don't we all wish we could identify that next big, breakout stock and jump in before everyone else? Investment professional Tobin Smith believes he's developed a solid means to that end, and he lays it out with contagious confidence in ChangeWave Investing. His intriguing approach begins with a detailed system for identifying the most promising of future highfliers--employing protocols that, Smith writes, "delivered more than 150 percent annualized gains since 1995 and more than 430 percent gain per stock pick in 1999 alone." Smith then turbocharges this approach with what he calls "open-source investing," using the same free-flowing method of information exchange that's proven so successful in the Linux software community. Much in the way ever-tweaking programmers have continually improved Linux, Smith contends, investors can enhance his own aggressive growth-stock model.
Will it work? Investors who support Smith's contention and play along, combining his advice with their own collective expertise, should be able to upgrade the financial "source code" of New Economy, making it available to all participants.
Some of the jargon-laden process may befuddle casual investors, but serious stock watchers searching for an ambitious and original strategy with high upside (and commensurate risk, to be sure) may just want to strap on a virtual seat belt and see for themselves. --Howard Rothman
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In this incredible book, Tobin Smith shows how the New Economy is just beginning, providing proven, easy-to-grasp strategies for rapid financial wealth-building.
Customer Reviews:
Post Mortem eternam........2003-05-19
Basically became a "b.seller" thanks to the publisher buying ten of thousands of books. Trickery and deceipt are the name of the game. However so many people lost $$ because of the empty analysis, made up terms and let's face it ignorance.
Avoid this and avoid wipeouts........2002-03-31
Read this a little while ago and am really writing this review to warn people considering having anything to do with Toby Smith. At the time I was impressed with the new jargon (I now realise that it was just nonsense),but after a while it also dawned on me that Toby was just fundamentally wrong and if you are also foolish enough to follow his website you will realise that he just makes things up as he goes along. This I suppose is how anyone would behave when they do not know what they are doing.
One need only look at his fund to see that does not know what to do with his own money let alone teaching people how to make money.
If I had not received any formal training regarding splitting investments, "sell stops" and when to avoid trading e.g. at announcements I would have wiped out my families entire fortune. God help those still stuck with his original recommendations -I know that some of you have had your retirement funds eliminated.
Also seen him on TV and he seems like a decent enough chap - shame that he does not know what he is doing.
Would rather go for teachings of Chris Manning or lessons learnt in the all time classic "Reminiscences of a Stock Operator".
Biggest B.S. in the History of the Printed Word.......2001-09-08
Incoherent, unintelligble ramblings of a former car salesman. (Indeed, check the man's true background.) The amazing thing about ChangeWave is the PR machine... tens of thousands of books purchased by that machine to make Changewave a "best seller." Sadly, the only gains Tobin has ever made come from the unwary consumer who bought his book and services. Credentials are non-existent... pardon me... now Tobin's a best-selling author. But read this New Economy b.s. today... if you can even get through three pages... and you'll know... there's something rotten in the state of publishing. PT. Barnum would be so proud.
Give me a break.......2001-08-15
Give me a break with this stuff. Please provide further insight into your credentials. What makes you a professional investor? Have you ridden the wave downwards? Please provide me with the exact calculation methodologies of your annualized returns...
Yet another guru!.......2001-08-10
This book smacks of the "Gorilla Game", might be okay in a Bull market, but not so hot in a Bear! Bill O'Neils' book is still the tops as far as I'm concerned. Try the free web-site, before buying the book or subscribing. Paper trading the recommendations should set you straight.
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Fantastic color illustrations throughout, and to cover. An excellent gift! Howard the duck in the lastest adventure. Howard undergoes the most disgusting transformation of all Metamorphosis - This Duck, This Monster, Them Changes!
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From the supplier: Eleven CEOs discuss their concerns about the Year 2000 (Y2K) computer date change problem and the preparations their companies are making to deal with it. Lockheed Martin Pres/COO Arthur E. Johnson and CheckFree Pres/CEO Peter Kight agree that it is the little things that are worrisome because they may be overlooked and later cause significant damage. Bell Atlantic Pres/CEO Ivan Seidenberg and Deluxe Pres/CEO John Blanchard III both believe that CEOs have to lead their companies' efforts to deal with Y2K glitches. Verifone Pres/CEO Robin Abrams worries about last minute surprises, while Diebold Chmn/CEO Robert Mahoney is concerned that his company may fail to address all of the problems related to the millennium bug. The concerns of Moore CEO Ed Tyler, Merrill Lynch CEO David Komansky, Arizona Public Service CEO William Post, FDX CEO Frederick Smith and Qwest Communications CEO Joseph Nacchio are also discussed.
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Post-humanism and the Techocracy........2007-01-23
_Representations of the Post/Human: Monsters, Aliens and Others in Popular Culture_ by Elaine L. Graham is a disturbing book which attempts to make sense of what it means to be human in a developing society where that category is frequently challenged from a post-modern perspective. In particular, this book examines many of the recent developments in science and technology and considers what they have to say about what it means to be human and the possibility of post-humanity (or "post/humanity" as the author calls it). I should note from the beginning that I am not sympathetic to the author's point of view, as she would likely classify me among the "technophobic". I tend to think that the ensuing technological developments are largely leading us in the direction of dystopia (the only place where any "utopian" thinking will lead). While the author does not seem to advocate an overly strong "technophilic" attitude, she does seem to argue that a more positive approach is called for because it will enable us to move beyond traditional categories. This is where she applies her post-modern perspective, repeatedly arguing that man (and by this she means white males, solely) has been responsible for oppression (particularly of other cultures, homosexuals, and women). Her feminism and post-modernism at times comes across as shrill and hysterical and thus I cannot take it all seriously. (Assuming she actually does support some of the views suggested in this book.) For example, I tend to think that many of the proposed developments in genetic engineering (and other scientific and technological developments in general) represent violent crimes against nature and the natural order. I also tend to think that these developments are being exploited by a technocratic and corporate elite (who are effectively hornswaggling the masses with utopian claims and overbold prophecy). While the author might agree with me on some points (for example, she castigates the Human Genome Project as relying excessively on corporate interests and overlooking Third World suffering), she would likely find my understanding of "nature" and "natural order" as reactionary and oppressive. Nevertheless, despite these glaring differences in perspective, I still found much of interest in this book. In particular, it showed me that coming developments in science and technology will indeed challenge our notions of humanity and it also revealed to me some of the dangers of supposing that the prospects of such developments are all positive. The Nineteenth century belief in "progress" and "humanism" is largely outmoded. The atomic age brought an end to all that, and more recent developments have even challenged further these original naive faiths. This is why I believe that it is necessary to bring back the notion of "transcendence" in a process of what the author would likely call "re-enchantment". The author seems to argue that such a program is reactionary. So be it.
To begin with the author considers various reactions to digital technologies. For example, among those who argued that technology was leading towards disenchantment were Jacques Ellul and Martin Heidegger (though the author will later argue that Heidegger did not entirely mean this) (as well as the Unabomber who is not mentioned) who the author would refer to as "technophobes". Others have argued that technological "progress" is leading towards totalitarianism. On the side of the technophiles, some such as Michio Kaku and Ray Kurzweil have praised technological progress and advocated technocracy, others have advocated transhumanism (including ideas such as cryogenic freezing to achieve immortality and downloading one's consciousness into a computer), and some have argued that with technological progress a "re-enchantment" is possible. The author also considers the possibility of monsters (who were originally believed to testify to man's transgressions) and the idea of "science as salvation" (mentioning the possibility of relating modern day technoculture to Gnosticism, an understanding which I believe is particularly important!). Concerning "monsters", the author will argue that while these were originally taken to be manifestations of man's transgressions against the natural order and the consequences of sin (as for example seen in the writings of Saint Augustine and the French surgeon Ambroise Pare, writer of _On Monsters and Marvels_) that they came to represent "the Other" and were outcasted and scapegoated. Relying on the theories of Foucault and other post-structuralist thinkers, the author attempts to show how teratology (the study of monsters; from the Greek teras = monster) relates to the representation of "the Other" in society. In the next section of this book, the author brings up some important examples of "monsters" from science fiction, popular culture, and myth. The first of these is the monster from Mary Shelley's _Frankenstein_. While the author seems to obfuscate the point a bit, I think the message of _Frankenstein_ was clear, when man transgresses the natural order, monsters ensue. Victor Frankenstein, the scientist in the story who creates the monster, is deeply steeped in various hermetic, alchemical, and scientific learnings, and his quest to usurp the power of the Divine and nature is apparent. It should be noted in this though, that the monster himself is not evil. In fact, he tries to fit into human society, despite his apparent defects. The author also considers the Jewish myth of the golem, an intelligent creature devised by the rabbis and intended to relate to man in the same way that Adam related to God. The golem of course is an important precursor of the robot (the term "robot" first appears in Karel Capek's play _R.U.R._, and Capek was deeply versed in the legend of the golem). Throughout history, many mentions to talking statues or visages are to be found (especially in the ancient world), and these along with the golem legend serve as important prescursors to the robot. Also, it should be noted that the mathematician Norbert Weiner, who developed the theory of cybernetics, was very much learned in the Kabbalah and Jewish mysticism, and in particular wrote about the golem. Finally, the "laws of robotics" devised by Isaac Asimov should be mentioned in the context of robots. The author next considers various developments in genetics, artificial reproduction (and reproductive technologies), and artificial intelligence, mentioning some of the points I noted above about the Human Genome Project. The implications of some of these technologies are horrifying in their attempt to demolish the dignity of man (they certainly raise the specter of "eugenics" into the Twenty-First Century consciousness). Regarding artificial intelligence, the author mentions such writers as Hans Moravec. However, it should be noted that any artificially devised intelligence will ultimately lack a soul. The author then devotes a chapter to the series _Star Trek_, mentioning the roles of the character Data and the Borg. Following this, the author considers the prospects of transhumanism. In particular, the prospects of nanotechnology are discussed (beginning with Feynman's famous lecture and given form by Eric Drexler). The author also discusses the role of the computer and the internet (mentioning the various responses to the internet) and relates this to the philosophy of Friedrich Nietzsche. The author also discusses various possibilities for re-enchantment, relating modern technological developments to paganism and Gnosticism, as well as hermetism. The author then discusses the role of the "cyborg" (part machine, part human), especially in the writings of Donna Haraway. The author ends with a discussion of various spiritualities that are emerging in the post-modern world.
Much of what is presented in this book is interesting, but ultimately horrifying. For those who believe in a natural order, it is very clear that technological developments are encroaching upon it. In the Twentieth Century, the atomic bomb (the ultimate destructive weapon) was the greatest product of scientific achievement, and ultimately lead to much harm. In the Twenty-First Century, the greatest product of scientific achievement is likely to be in the realm of genetics. It too has the potential to do great harm.
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