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The Heart of Change: Real-Life Stories of How People Change Their Organizations

The Heart of Change: Real-Life Stories of How People Change Their Organizations
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John Kotter's international bestseller Leading Change struck a powerful chord with legions of managers everywhere. It acknowledged the cynicism, pain, and fear they faced in implementing large-scale change-but also armed them with an eight-step plan of action for leaping boldly forward in a turbulent world.

Now, Kotter and coauthor Dan S. Cohen delve deeper into the subject of change to get to the heart of how change actually happens. Through compelling, real-life stories from people in the trenches, in all kinds of organizations, the authors attack the fundamental problem that underlies every major transformation: How do you go beyond simply getting your message across to truly changing people's behavior?

Based on interviews within over 100 organizations in the midst of large-scale change, The Heart of Change delivers the simple yet provocative answer to this question, forever altering the way organizations and individuals approach change. While most companies believe change happens by making people think differently, Kotter and Cohen say the key lies in making them feel differently. They introduce a new dynamic-"see-feel-change"-that fuels action by showing people potent reasons for change that spark their emotions.

Organized around the revolutionary eight-step change process introduced in Leading Change, this story-driven book shows how the best change leaders use not just reports or analysis, but gloves, video cameras, airplanes, office design, and other concrete elements to impel people toward positive action. The authors reveal how this appeal to the heart-over the mind-motivates people to overcome even daunting obstacles to change and produce breathtaking results.

For individuals in every walk of life and companies in every stage of change, this compact, no-nonsense book captures the heart-and the how-of successful change.

 

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There are tables in the book that display as images on the kindle. These are very hard to read and some of them may only be partially shown (it's hard to tell). The content is otherwise excellent, and spot-on. I would recommend the print edition highly, and the Kindle only if you're stuck on it.

This iks a book recommended by the boss to better coop people into helping with the change process. Change is hard and having as much knowledge to overcome resistance is always helpful.

Once they allowed the employees to have input and gave the employees incentive to get involved the change the company needed came about. The book is a very easy read and I rarely found myself becoming bored with it. The majority of the stories deal with organizational change and the proper steps a person should take to bring about a change in their own lives and the lives of others. I would recommend this book to anyone who is looking to do the same in their own life. The people in the stories find a solution to their problem implement it and then tweak it to make it work for them.What I learned from this book is that there is no sure method set in stone to getting your employees to be more productive. By following the steps in the book the people in the stories manage to change their lives for the better.

Every step gets its own chapter with different stories relating to the theme of the chapter. The book is based on the theory that by following eight steps major change can be brought about in a person's life. Many of the stories start off with a paragraph introducing the scenario and giving some background on the story that you are about to read. The story itself is usually about a page or two in length and then following the story there are a few bulleted points or notes on how people brought about change within the story. This book consists of about 400 individual stories that all have a common theme of change as you can tell from the title of the book. By reading the stories presented in every chapter you get a better sense of how these ideas are actually supposed to be implemented. It is not just getting a solution from a textbook implementing it and that is the end of it.

It takes a good leader that is able to listen and adapt to what his employees need in order for them to be more productive. In many of these stories the employers tried to do it their way first and failed miserably. Overall the book does a very good job of getting its message across. The main reason for this is because the book is composed of many real life examples of how people changed their lives. Another thing I learned about organization from this book is that in order to ensure proper change is brought about the employer must ensure that they follow up after they have implemented their plan for change and ensure that it sticks.

The bulleted points sometimes show the things that were done right and sometimes the things that need to be improved upon. Even if you do not fully understand the stories the summaries at the end make it very easy to see the message that is trying to be conveyed. This book has a lot to offer for a person or business that wants to bring about great change in their life. Written by Tyler Grillo

Excellent book, easy to read, understand and follow the steps. The examples are so plentiful and so easy to moldable to one's own challenges. I would suggest this read to anyone, employees and CEOs alike, that wants to make a change in their organization or in their life.

Your heart allows you to thrive.right. Page 11 and it's diagram of the concept of See-Feel-Change is terrific. The script them backed up it's information with the 8 stages of successful large-scale change. And that it did. Page 78 and 79 with the story of "the body in the living room" was more than real and humbling, while the story on page 50 about the boat capsizing and the need for "trust" through a change was priceless.I would recommend this book for those in the educational realm as well as the business world, and even those just pursuing change for their own personal life. I felt that this book was very well written and offered some life-changing information. So a book entitled "The Heart of Change" probably should show signs of life. Terrific, not only because it matched the content, but because it met the visual reader as well as the logical reader as well as the emotional reader.

The real-life stories only encouraged the reader to pursue more and more of what we all want. And that is to FEEL in our HEART that what we are doing is WORTHWHILE and PURPOSEFUL. This worked becuase we all know that you usually experience individual/personal change amidst a bigger/greater change. As John Kotter said, if we see it and feel it, we will desire the change.

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