Excellent read for anyone challenged with transforming an organization's culture
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Team of Teams will challenge you to think about how the organizational transformation described in the book can be applied in your own organization. The stories offer rich detail of the process General McChrystal and his team followed. While it is true that few of us work in the same type of intense, high pressure environment, most of us do work in environments in which information is horded as a source of power rather than shared as a source of innovation. As someone who has done research on knowledge flows and information sharing in teams and organizations, I recommend this book as an excellent illustration of what such a process can look like.  As other reviewers have noted, this book is light on the "how" to do this. However, the authors more than make up for this by providing a vivid and memorable example of what it can look like when an organization successfully moves away from a "need to know" mindset to a "shared consciousness" mindset.
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Who says work has to suck? Is this really the best we can do with our work and our lives? More importantly, why have we accepted this?

These are just a few of the questions asked and answered in this book by Josh Allan Dykstra. A well researched and highly readable book, Igniting the Invisible Tribe is a plain-speak road map enabling organizational transformation leading to operational excellence. Josh's provocative perspective turns traditional workforce planning on its ear while clearly offering new ways to collaboratively reach a brighter future.

This is the best book on culture transformation I've read in many years-maybe ever. Don't just buy this book; study it. Use it to create a workplace revolution and help invent the future we would love to work in!
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Fantastic read with clear applicable tools for housing better teams, organizations and cultures. This book provides a solid complement to the five dysfunctions and together can help make teams more effective
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"Whole Scale Change: Unleashing the Magic in Organizations" and "Whole Scale Change Toolkit" introduce straightforward, systematic, and applicable approaches to successfully achieving effective change in human organizations.  While most people acknowledge that changes are necessary and also recognize that changes are often resisted, based on the low success rate of effective change, few people appear to understand the dynamics of achieving progressive change.  In the context of human organizations as functioning systems, Dannemiller Tyson Associates: define the dynamics of organization al change, acknowledge to forces for and against change, recommend constitutes whose collaboration and support must be earned, and describe practical processes for planning, executing, and institutionalizing organizational changes.  To earn the reader's confidence, the authors use real world examples that demonstrate how "whole scale change" has worked in everyday organizations.

I highly recommended "Whole Scale Change: Unleashing the Magic in Organizations" and "Whole Scale Change Toolkit" for everyone working to achieve change in their organizations.
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Calling all managers and administrators!  You need to read this book if you want your business to successful.  This book offers a structured plan for changing the workplace culture, to one that is both functional and civil.  Filled with case studies, shocking statistics,  assessments, worksheets and activities, this enlightening book will help turn a dysfunctional workplace into a thriving organization where people actually want to come to work! It's time for a change.
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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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There has been a growing appreciation of the importance of culture in healthcare organizations (more and more you hear healthcare execs quoting the well-known Peter Drucker line that culture eats strategy for lunch).  Chris Van Gorder vividly illustrates how it's not enough for the CEO to just talk about culture - he or she must live the culture.  The example set by senior leaders is the single-most important determinant of culture throughout the rest of the organization.  Not everyone can have the experience (or the energy) of the author, but we can all learn from his example of how to be better leaders and do a better job of promoting a great culture.  This is a book that should be on the reading list of every healthcare executive - and that can inspire leaders in every other field as well.
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As a manager and executive, and more recently a writer about leadership and performance, Ive watched teams increasingly struggle with the impact of globalization. To understand how to deal with the challenges of cultural differences, Ive tracked and relied on the various books that claim to help team managers and members navigate these difficult waters. Erin Meyer's just-published "The Culture Map" stands out as the best Ive seen in this group for the practical clarity of its approach and insights. Her eight key dimensions let you map your team members (and yourself) against each other and find ways to bridge the chasms of misunderstanding that can sabotage everyones best intentions. "The Culture Map" reflects her deep experience at INSEAD and inside companies working with leaders from around the world.
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Great read - engaging and valuable for CE0's and every level of management.  The authors have given new insights on the nature of change, how it effects people and company culture.  A new and creative perspective on a challenging process.
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There are countless books on organizational change and countless books on customer service.  Ron Kaufman's "Uplifting Service" breaks new ground by providing a "proven path" for creating a true culture of service across an entire organization.  Here are actionable steps and real practices used in major corporations with significant impact on how employees work together to create value for customers.

The added twist is the global perspective of the experience shared in this book.  At a time when organizations are grappling with creating consisent, innovative, continuously improving service performance across globally diverse locations, Ron brings a wealth of "around the world" results and rapid impact. His experience spans high-technology, finance, manufacturing, telecommunications, transportation and hospitality.

The ideas and action steps are powerful, yet easy to grasp.  The break out of WHY, LEAD, BUILD, LEARN and DRIVE provides a blueprint you can follow.  The Building Blocks offer a way to examine what you already do and see where opportunities exist. You may do many things well, but if those things are not aligned to serve your customers and partners you cannot make service a competitive edge.

This book is not complex or academic - it is a unique way to look wholistically at the perspectives and practices in your company and create change today.  We think we know what "service" means, but as Ron states: "the world of service is poorly mapped."  Here is the map to follow the proven path.
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Dr. Reynolds' book provides guidance for developing leadership strategies to transform your organization and the practical techniques to make the transformation a reality.  Particularly helpful for me as a "left-brained" thinker by nature, is the chapter on creating an organizational vision using guided imagery exercises. I plan to use these techniques in my own life as well.  Thank you, Dr. Reynolds!
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I had to read this book for my Culture and Change class as part of my Masters in Humane Education. It's an excellent book; the author has some great ideas how Corporate America can change without too much hassle and how we can participate in that shift. Every CEO and senior manager on the planet should read it.
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Having assisted leaders and teams in dozens of organizations for over 25 years as a management consultant, I can offer nothing but praise for Sutherland's book.  While designing and driving innovation seems to always include some elements related to process, technology and people, in my experience it's the people part where most of the challenges and opportunities lie.  This book set out a smorgasbord of ideas to address the people/organizational dimension of change that are both practical and nuanced.  Sutherland provides examples and references for further reading.  Anyone who shares her passion for revolutionizing how groups work together can use this concise and well written book as practical tool box and well marked pathway to further learning.
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A wonderful look at Organization Development and managing culture within an organization. Filled with helpful models and tools as well as an enjoyable read. I highly recommend!
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Purington & Butler do an outstanding job of providing a systematic approach to managing positive change in training & development.  The book is full of very specific & useful recommendations to upgrade an organization's culture cost effectively and gain competitive advantage in its ability to learn quickly.  It shares many examples of what worked well along with a few examples of flexibility with plans that needed to be changed.  The only negative to the book ... and it is only a minor negative is that it sometimes repeated some of the examples.  If you are in a training department, are in a position to influence or approve a training department's strategies or are selling & marketing to the training & development market ... this is a must read!!
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Some refreshing insights and great approaches for leading change in an organization.  Axelrod challenges the old change management theories with current thinking.  I was able to implement some of his suggestions immediately.  Makes lots of sense!
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Essential reading for most executives, managers and teams who find themselves in a multi-cultural environment, either on account of international expansion or via a more international workforce. The author combines a rigorous research mindset, first-hand international experience and an acute human sensibility to deliver insight that is hard to argue with. Refreshing to see a book on the subject of innovation in a cultural context steer away from opinion and instead take the harder, and more reliable research oriented path.

Whatever your level of cultural experience in an international business setting, this book goes a long way towards helping provide actionable perspective that can help raise your game. 5 stars.