Great read for change agents!
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Great book to get you on the path of changing your mindset to change your results and ultimately your life for the better!  A must read!!!
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Highly recommend this book for people going through change. very eye opening and easy to follow. Good for a wide range of people and positions.
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After 23 years of managing change, I wish I had read this at the beginning of my career. Even the best ideas have someone who will lose in the change process and oppose your efforts unless you understand how to manage the ecosystem. "The Wide Lens" helps lay out a practical framework for the reader to recognize and understand the entire innovation and adoption ecosystem, and work on implementation that will create value for all stakeholders, not just the innovator and end user. I have personally used this book to great effect with senior executives in my organization, helping them to design and implement effective change strategies that are driving changes in behavior and a change in culture. Ron Adner's book should be required reading for any new leader, whether they are in private industry, government or non-profit organizations.
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I was put onto this book by a supervisor a couple levels above me about 9 years and didn't read it initially but when I did, WOW! It really got me in the right frame to make necessary changes when I was acting manager and helped me to sell my team on the process and tagging sacred cows. A good companion we tied in to make it more fun was "the Simpsons" episode about Bovine University. It really promotes making change in a positive manner.
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A terrific book if you want to be a change agent in the community/company you work. One of the best gifts I got last Christmas from my co-worker.
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Very helpful in my change management class!  More in-depth information about John Kotter's #1 step in his 8-step change management process.
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Excellent read!  Must read for anyone searching for change and adventure! Will recommend for sure!
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I found this book to the point and I enjoyed it. Change is a complex topic - this book makes it a practical and not an academic exercise. A quick read for anyone interested in the subject.
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Loved learning about the shift in business and leadership! I had been struggling keeping a capable support staff in place and I see now what pieces were missing in my leadership. Ty's book included examples in action, new perspectives on which to place my focus, and phrases I can adapt to create better results. And it's not a freaking long book so I could actually read through it pretty quickly and implement right away!

 I really love this book!
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I've been reading Bill's Coyote Insight blog for a while, so was looking forward to reading "The 7 Keys to Change". I wasn't disappointed.
Bill draws from his extensive work as an executive, consultant, and just as importantly, his personal life to give readers a solid framework and roadmap for change. In fact, that's one of Bill's points about change - when it comes to change, it's ALL personal.
While I was tempted to just jump ahead to the 7 keys (part 2), I was glad I didn't and read part 1 as well. I was already familiar with many of the change authors and models Bill referenced, but I really enjoyed his fresh and unique perspective, especially the examples and stories. It helped make the 7 keys even more relevant and practical.
No matter how many books on change you may already have on your bookshelf, you should make room for The 7 Keys.
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Good Authority is a very engaging, easy, and delightful book to read, which takes you on a journey where you meet real people in real stories on their journey to change. Jonathans approach makes clear that change cannot only be related to your job and business as performance. If it is not related to your whole personality, it will stay a technique that you may excel in, but which will not bring lasting change on all levels. That is what is new in this beautifully written book. It connects what needs to be connected: personal and professional growth. If you want to change your business, it means you have to change first and it will then have ramifications on your business. If you want your employees to change, you have to engage with them on a deeper level so that they take ownership of their own qualities and strengths. The archetypes Jonathan describes later in his book are very illuminating and practical to utilize.
As the author speaks about change and good authority he interweaves his own story and his growth within it.
This may all seem like a scary journey but how Jonathan speaks about it, it sounds like a delight because it is about you and your possibility to change.
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This is a great read for people who are thinking of reinventing themselves, shifting careers, or just wanting to follow their passion.  It shows clear examples and presents steps by which one could explore other career options safely.  I recommend this to people who are afraid or don't know how to start making a change.
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Okay, maybe not, but change agent John Kotter sure does.  His acclaimed change agent book uses an easy to read fable to illustrate the timely and sensitive topic. Using a penguin colony faced with news that their iceberg is melting, he demonstrates the team struggle and creates scenarios similar to the ones us non-penguins encounter daily in our quest or resistance to change and shows how a collective, driven and organized process can bring results.

How individuals manage and respond to change is the difference between success and disruption. Most literature on change deals with a logical process, in Kotter's case: setting the stage, deciding what to do, making it happen and making it stick.  Read by itself, the effect on the reader is minimal.  Read through the lens of a heroic story makes it easy for the educated mind to drop its analytical reasoning and put change in the context of the human element.

Whether or not you have a melting iceberg, the roadblocks the colony faces and triumph of innovative thinking creates a story that we all want to be a part of as we navigate our organizational changes.  If penguins can be successful in change, why can't we?

Review by Brandy Gonsoulin, Account Executive at Stinson Brand Innovation
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I really enjoyed Akash Karia's The Habit Project. His clear breakdown of the process of habit formation, tools to overcome failure, and great examples to illustrate his points have inspired me to tackle a couple of habits on my wish list. This isn't a book to convince you that creating change is easy. Instead, Akash beaks down the steps to change so it becomes a simple process of small steps to your new behavior.

Packed with strategies, this could be just the push you need to add a new habit to your routine, or cut a bad one from your life. My personal favorite tool is the idea of creating a chain of success days. The thought of seeing a month, or many months, with success at a new habit marked on my calendar is motivating. "Your only job is not to break that chain!"
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Organizational change guru Daryl Conner has recently blogged about "The Dirty Little Secret." The secret is that some 75% of organizational change attempts fail. I think a big reason they fail may involve looking at Change with old eyes. Eyes that see change too narrowly--as a linear, sequential  process. Our experiences as people living in organizations demonstrate that organizational change is neither linear or sequential.  This book suggests that to master change, we need to see it with new eyes. The authors contributing to New Eyes approach change in a unique and holistic way, surrounding change with new mufti-disciplinary perspectives and suggest that organizational change can be more knowable, more manageable--when looked upon with New Eyes.  If you are a change consultant or manager trying to cope with change, buy this book. I particularly enjoyed the chapters on positive deviance, big data, and performance--but they are all worth a look.
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I really enjoyed this book. It's a good concise plan for making changes to your life or organization. (For a better more in depth look, check out Switch by Chip & Dan Heath.)

The author says that this is his first attempt at a popular book, and it shows a bit. He stretches a bit to make his forces for change fit into the acronym "SCIENCE" and some of the writing and examples seem overly simplistic. (That may be partially because I've read a lot of books on the subject, though.)

That being said, it had good information and was inspiring to me. It gave me some ideas for changes that I'd like to make in my life and methods to effect those changes, so it was definitely a worthwhile investment for me.
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Stretch for change is a must read in today's environment where change is the only constant.
The book challenged me to think about my behavioral paradigms and expectations - the read about vulnerability was an aha moment to me.
I would highly recommend this book to any manager who wants to get inspired and challenged by new ideas and point of views.