James O’Toole “the ideology of comfort and the tyranny of custom”
Crazy Is a Compliment: The Power of Zigging When Everyone Else Zags Linda Rottenberg Portfolio/Penguin “To strive, to seek, to find, and not to yield.” Tennyson’s Ulysses Most people are caught up in what James O’Toole so aptly characterizes as…
Read MoreThe 3 Power Values: How Commitment, Integrity, and Transparency Clear the Roadblocks to Performance David Gebler Jossey-Bass/A Wiley Imprint (2012) How to meet the challenge of keeping organizational constants and variables in proper alignment In Leading Change, James O’Toole suggests…
Read MoreLeapfrogging: Harness the Power of Surprise for Business Breakthroughs Soren Kaplan Berrett-Koehler Publishers (2012) The power and value of serendipity on the other side of complexity As I began to read this book, I was reminded of an observation by…
Read MoreEnterprise Games: Using Game Mechanics to Build a Better Business Michael Hugos O’Reilly Media (2012) How games can help business leaders to respond more effectively to crises as well as to opportunities Games may well be the first non-violent activity…
Read MoreLeapfrogging: Harness the Power of Surprise for Business Breakthroughs Soren Kaplan Berrett-Koehler Publishers (2012) The power and value of serendipity on the other side of complexity As I began to read this book, I was reminded of an observation by Oliver Wendell Holmes: “I wouldn’t give…
Read MoreChanging Minds: The Art and Science of Changing Our Own and Other People’s Minds Howard Gardner Harvard Business Review Press (Paperbound Edition, 2006) Note: I re-read this book curious to know to what extent — if any — Gardner’s insights…
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Harvard Business Review: Cultural Change That Sticks
Most change initiatives either fail or fall far short of original expectations. Reasons vary but, more often than not, those who lead the initiatives are unable to avoid or overcome cultural resistance, the result of what James O’Toole so aptly…
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