Just ordered this book: Switch: How to Change Things When Change Is Hard
by Chip and Dan Heath. Here is a description: "Why is change so difficult and frightening? How do you create change when you have few resources and no title or authority to back you up? Chip and Dan Heath, the best-selling authors of Made to Stick, are back with a ground-breaking book that addresses one of the greatest challenges of our personal and professional lives — how to change things when change is hard. In their follow-up book to the critically acclaimed international bestseller Made to Stick, Chip and Dan Heath talk about how difficult change is in our companies, our careers, and our lives, why change is so hard, and how we can overcome our resistance and make change happen. Throughout Switch, Chip and Dan Heath illustrate and explain situations in which sweeping change was adopted, from a university researcher who ended the cycle of child abuse in a group of families, to an entrepreneur who turned his skeptical employees into customer service zealots and saved his company. In the tradition of Made to Stick, Blink, and Outliers, Switch is filled with engaging and entertaining stories of how companies and individuals have brought about and sustained significant change. An indispensable guide to making change happen, it is certain to become a classic."
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How about Linchpin?
Hi Peter, Thanks. I did not know about that book. Have you read it? What do you like about it?
I haven't read it in full, only a 60 page excerpt that I received from Acumen. It is another amazing book my Seth.
The book looks at the potential of a "normal" person. This potential is considered very high. I love this approach as it is in alignment with the approach of highly effective characters like Viktor Frankl or Marva Collins.
Take a look at this 8 page PDF: Brainwashed It should provide you with a very clear idea about this book.
Also, I nominated you as one of my Linchpins and I would love to read what you think about the book. :)
Thanks for passing this along, Peter. This is some provocative stuff to think about.
I'm glad I could do my share.
I got this book the day it came out because I'd ordered it in advance on Amazon.com. I have to say that it's an awesome read.
It's a bit challenging to use it for self-help purposes because most of the examples are about organizations.
But if you work at it you can use these ideas to change yourself too.
Switch is a great book, I have the audio version. It's riddled with SF concepts and is quite good at translating them to examples. As Rodney said it is more of an organizational management book ( a "good to great" via SF ).
Linchpin is a fantastic read, Seth's best yet. Very different than his previous books. This book is leading a riot and revolution to remind cubicle prisoners that the knowledge economy is here the 'assembly line system' of clock punching and one way communication is ending.
I'm a 'student' of Alan Kay's in Canada. He makes SF much easier to understand!
thx Paul,
give my regards to Alan, I know him well. I agree, Alan can explain SF in a very practical way
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