Deep Change: Discovering the Leader Within

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Wiley, Aug 14, 1996 - Business & Economics - 236 pages
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.

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Contents

Deep Change or Slow Death 1 Walking Naked into the Land of Uncertainty
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Confronting the Deep Change or Slow Death Dilemma
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Personal Change 3 The Fear of Change
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ROBERT E. QUINN, author of Beyond Rational Management (Jossey-Bass, 1991) and Becoming a Master Manager (2nd edition, 1996), helps business and government leaders understand and manage organizational life through his teaching, consulting, books, and numerous published articles. He holds the Margaret Elliot Tracy Collegiate Professorship of organizational behavior and human resource management at the Graduate School of Business, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor.