Deep Change: Discovering the Leader Within ANNOTATION
Through a series of stories, Quinn offers a new path that will help people in the trenches of today's modern organizations move beyond daily struggles into a position of peace, power, freedom and influence. Deep Change explores the process of internally driven leadership.
FROM THE PUBLISHER
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. An introspective journey for those of us in the trenches of today's modern organizations, Deep Change is filled with illuminating stories and personal examples of the stages of change and the dangerous effects of refusing to change. It also includes reflective questions and ideas at the end of each chapter to help put insights into action.
SYNOPSIS
Robert E. Quinn has written a survival manual for anyone trying to stay afloat in a constantly changing organization. Through a series of stories, Quinn offers a new path that will help people in the trenches of today's modern organizations move beyond daily struggles into a position of peace, power, freedom and influence. Deep Change explores the process of internally driven leadership? Where the most important skill is to "know thyself." It is not only about change management but also a new way of thinking about change and how it affects our lives. The author inspires readers to discover new ways of seeing and responding? Allowing them to see themselves and their organizations in new and more productive ways.
FROM THE CRITICS
Library Journal
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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