Transforming Your Leadership Culture | Date: 28 April 2011, 07:41
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Transforming Your Leadership Culture (J-B CCL (Center for Creative Leadership))
By John B. McGuire, Gary Rhodes
* Publisher: Jossey-Bass
* Number Of Pages: 336
* Publication Date: 2009-03-30
* ISBN-10 / ASIN: 0470259574
* ISBN-13 / EAN: 9780470259573
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Praise for Transforming Your Leadership Culture
"If you are a leader who has been burned by the failure of traditional change management—remember that program that cost millions and didn't change a thing—this is the book for you. It provides a wholly new perspective for transforming leaders and your organization's culture simultaneously, and rapidly." —Michael Beer, chairman, TruePoint, and professor emeritus, Harvard Business School
"John McGuire and Gary Rhodes provided solid support as we transformed our company from a top-down, do-your-job-because-I-said-so culture to a collaborative learning community of leaders within a process-centered organization. I cannot imagine having done it without them."—Loyal Peterman, president and founder, Abrasive Technology, Inc.
"It is becoming more and more obvious that a developmental view of the human being is the core of any effective human change process. Transforming Your Leadership Culture is the latest book—and one of the best books—about how and why this is so, and how to implement it in your own business. Highly recommended!" —Ken Wilber, founder, Integral Institute, and author of The Integral Vision and Integral Psychology
"The path to creating a genuine leadership culture in organizations is perhaps the deepest mystery of organizing. McGuire and Rhodes have carefully documented the actual paths taken by some of the very few companies that have successfully transformed toward interdependence together. Transforming Your Leadership Culture maps the process into the heart of this mystery." —Bill Torbert, management professor emeritus, Boston College
"I had hoped that creating a high-performance organization could happen swiftly with a few powerful speeches and actions. The challenging truth is that creating an interdependent spirit and culture demands perseverance. Indeed, this is what sets the committed few apart from the masses—and the results are extraordinary!" —Vance Tang, president and CEO, KONE Inc.
Summary: Outstanding Read - A Must for Your Top 10 List
Rating: 5
Organizational transformation is standard fare for visionary leaders when asked about moving to the next level, being able to respond effectively and resiliently to a rapidly changing world. If all it took were smart people to run organizations we would never lose sleep over concerns like service, innovation, customers, or operational effectiveness. John McGuire and Gary Rhodes have mapped out not just why organizational realignments fail, but demonstrate the lessons grounded in real life that will help any organization transform. This book is the result of years of research grounded in observing organization transformation attempts in various industries, private and governmental, and is a cogent and thought-provoking read identifying both the missteps and firm steps that have resulted in radically different, high performance organizational growth. The authors' work is based in large part on a developmental theory approach to organizational systems using foundational work from leading organizational thinkers including Bill Torbert and associates, whose powerhouse work, Action Inquiry, is one of the most influential reads for any CEO or developing leader, Chris Argyris, and Robert Kegan.
It's not just the solid grounding of observations in transformation attempts or the clear linking to human behaviors that sets this book apart. McGuire and Rhodes have taken experiences from working in hundreds of organizations worldwide and created an operating manual for assessing the readiness for change and have packaged the tools to engage the kinds of thinking and dialogue that spark the discovery process. Readers will find their own minds getting bigger, to use their term, as they consider possibilities for expanding thinking within their teams, work groups, and organizations.
Well written, informative, and immediately useful, this text is one of the first to truly deal with how to begin your own organizational exploration into transformation and supported by sound observations of how we humans respond. As leaders in the organization, we are concerned about the behaviors and responses of our employees both with our clients and within our work groups. While there is only so much behavior that can be scripted or structured by the organization, only by dealing with our thinking can we change our attitudes and approaches. McGuire and Rhodes have mapped this for us, and paraphrasing Oliver Wendell Holmes, a mind once stretched never returns to its original size.
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