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Leading in a Culture of Change
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Change is an inevitable, essential part of the modern world. It prevents stagnation, fosters creative solutions, and propels innovation. Yet change also brings challenges: to survive and prosper, organizations must adapt to shifting market dynamics, public volatility, technological disruptions, and more. Leaders need to understand the dynamics of change to cope with the complexities of the change process.
Leading in a Culture of Change describes the dimensions of leadership that matter most in times of change. It explores five components: moral purpose, understanding change, building relationships, creating and sharing knowledge, and creating coherence. Together, these ideas help leaders bring people toward shared goals in difficult conditions.
Extensively revised and updated throughout, this widely read book continues to help leaders across sectors understand the dynamics of change and navigate the complete change process. The second edition is thoroughly grounded in the various forms and interpretations of successful change, includes more precise definitions of the core competencies of change, and offers contemporary case studies of their development and practical application with increased guidance through new concrete examples. Combining knowledge from the worlds of education and business, this unique book will help you integrate proven methods of education reform with current insights in leadership and organizational change; develop and implement positive, sustained systematic change strategies; increase performance, optimize learning, and improve leadership; and embrace a principled process of effective organizational change.
About the author
Michael Fullan
Michael Fullan is professor emeritus at the Ontario Institute for Studies in Education at the University of Toronto and is special adviser on education to Dalton McGuinty, the premier of Ontario. He holds honorary doctorates from the University of Edinburgh, Scotland, and from Nipissing University in Canada.
Fullan served as dean of the faculty of education at the University of Toronto from 1988 to 2003, leading two major organizational transformations, including a merger of two large schools of education. He is currently working as adviser and consultant on several major education reform initiatives around the world, basing his work on research and practice in both the public and private sectors. He has written several bestsellers on leadership and change that have been translated into several languages, and four of his books have won book-of-the-year awards. His latest books are The Six Secrets of Change, Realization (with Lyn Sharratt), and Motion Leadership: The Skinny on Becoming Change Savvy.
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