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The Deep Change Field Guide

Robert E. Quinn

How do you move from reacting to a changing world to choosing deep change in yourself and the groups you lead?

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Author
Robert E. Quinn

Why read it

  • You will recognize the slow death that sets in when you or your group keeps doing what worked before instead of adapting
  • You will understand how an organization can be seen as a living system that is either gaining or losing energy
  • You will know how to return to your best leadership state by becoming purpose centered, focused on others and open to the outside

Who it is for

  • A manager whose team keeps repeating the same playbook
  • An executive preparing a talk on leading change
  • Someone in a comfortable role who senses slow decline

Contents

  1. Preface
  2. About This Field Guide
  3. Think About It
  4. Personal Reflection and Application
  5. Put the Learning to Work
  6. Getting the Most From This Course
  7. In This Chapter
  8. The Western Way
  9. The Checklist Mentality
  10. Challenge Your Normal Assumptions
  11. Collective Learning
  12. Two Kinds of Change: Incremental Change and Deep Change
  13. Becoming a Transformational Leader: An Analogy
  14. A Second Analogy
  15. Trapped in Normal Change Assumptions
  16. The Failure of Success
  17. Breaking the Logic of Task Pursuit
  18. Reflect
  19. Watch a Film: Norma Rae
  20. Make a Journal Entry
  21. Write a Memo
  22. Apply the Learning
  23. In This Chapter
  24. Denial Leads to Slow Death
  25. The Source of Slow Death
  26. How Slow Death Unfolds
  27. Characteristics of the Slow Death Process
  28. Organizing as a Living System
  29. Deep Change
  30. On Seeing Me As I Really Am
  31. Reflect
  32. Watch the Film: Moneyball
  33. Make a Journal Entry
  34. Write a Memo
  35. Apply the Learning
  36. In This Chapter
  37. A Generative Leader
  38. Levels of Change
  39. Regeneration of a Relationship
  40. The Transformational Process
  41. The Connections
  42. Denial
  43. Soft Is Hard
  44. Reflect
  45. Watch the Film: The King's Speech
  46. Make a Journal Entry
  47. Write a Memo
  48. Apply the Learning
  49. Personal Change and Positive Organizing
  50. In This Chapter
  51. The Death and Rebirth of Our Ego
  52. Turning Points
  53. Processing Negative Events
  54. Deep Change and Generative Capacity
  55. Two Realities
  56. Success Scripts
  57. Changing the Script
  58. Reflect
  59. Watch the Film: The Devil Wears Prada
  60. Make a Journal Entry

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