Deep Change: Discovering the Leader Within by Robert E. Quinn

Deep Change: Discovering the Leader Within
Robert E. Quinn

Format: Hardcover, 232pp.
ISBN: 9780787902445
Publisher: Jossey-Bass
Pub. Date: September 1996

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From The Publisher:

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.

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"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.

About the Author

Robert E. Quinn helps business and goverrnment leaders understand the paradoxes, competing demands, and contradictons of organizational life through his teaching, consulting, and his published works. He is professor of organizational behavior and human resource management at the Graduate School of Business, University of Michigan-Ann Arbor and consults with hundreds of organizations, including Fortune 500 companies, public agencies, and volunteer organizations.

Table of Contents

	Preface	xi
	The Author	xix
Part 1	Deep Change or Slow Death
1	Walking Naked into the Land of Uncertainty	3
2	Confronting the Deep Change or Slow Death Dilemma	15
Part 2	Personal Change
3	The Fear of Change	31
4	The Heroic Journey	41
5	Finding Vitality	51
6	Breaking the Logic of Task Pursuit	59
7	A New Perspective	65
8	Confronting the Integrity Gap	73
9	Build the Bridge as You Walk on It	83
Part 3	Changing the Organization
10	Denying the Need for Change	91
11	Finding the Source of the Trouble	99
12	When Success Is the Engine of Failure	107
13	The Tyranny of Competence	115
14	The Internally Driven Leader	121
Part 4	Vision, Risk, and the Creation of Excellence
15	Overcoming Resistance	133
16	From Manager to Leader	147
17	Why Risk Is Necessary	155
18	The Transformational Cycle	161
19	Excellence Is a Form of Deviance	173
20	Confronting the Undiscussable	181
21	A Vision from Within	195
22	The Power of One	217
23	The Power of Many	221
	References	231
	Index	233

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