Deep Change: Discovering the Leader Within / Edition 1

by Robert E. Quinn

Overview

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.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780787902445
Publisher:	Wiley
Publication date:	08/16/1996
Series:	Wiley Desktop Editions Series , #206
Pages:	256
Product dimensions:	5.90(w) x 9.00(h) x 1.10(d)

About the Author

ROBERT E. QUINN, author of Beyond Rational Management (Jossey-Bass, 1991) and Becoming a Master Manager (2nd edition, 1996), helps business and government leaders understand and manage organizational life through his teaching, consulting, books, and numerous published articles. He holds the Margaret Elliot Tracy Collegiate Professorship of organizational behavior and human resource management at the Graduate School of Business, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor.

Table of Contents

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

Editorial Reviews

"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.

From the Publisher

Business school professor Quinn (Univ. of Michigan; Master Manager, John Wiley, 1995), who believes that people can effect great change in large organizations by changing themselves, has written a self-help book similar to but less structured than Stephen R. Covey's Seven Habits of Highly Effective People (S. & S., 1989). In four sections, he defines "deep change," discusses the need for personal change, provides insights into the perceptions of an internally driven leader, and challenges the reader to develop a vision that includes the creation of excellence. Each chapter is followed by a set of questions that are to be used as springboards to personal and organizational change. His book reads easily, and the presentation is inspirational. Few self-help books aimed at developing an individual's leadership skills are available, recommending this for general readers where there is demand or interest.S.C. Fair, Ohio Univ., Zanesville

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