Review:
"...offers valuable insights into the dynamics of change...full of illustrative case examples, exercises and resources..." -- Long Range Planning, Number 38, 2005
"A great book for leaders everywhere who are truly interested in learning and cultivating the leadership potential in others." -- Marilyn Knox, president, Nutrition, Nestle Canada Inc.
"In Leading in a Culture of Change, Michael Fullan deftly combines his expertise in school reform with the latest insights in organizational change and leadership. The result is a compelling and insightful exposition on how leaders in any setting can bring about lasting, positive, systemic change in their organizations." -- John Alexander, president, Center for Creative Leadership
"Leading in a Culture of Change describes vividly the kind of leadership necessary to bring about successful change in modern times. At its heart is building capacity-a powerful message." -- Michael Barber, head, Standards and Effectiveness Unit, Department for Education and Employment, London, England
"Michael Fullan has no truck with simplistic solutions or superheroes. Instead he helps leaders understand the paradoxes of complex cultural change-leaders from all sectors will learn from his insights." -- Heather Duquesnay, director and chief executive, National College for School Leadership, England
"Michael Fullan's work is remarkable. He masterfully captures how leaders can significantly improve their learning and performance, even in the uncontrollable, chaotic circumstances in which they practice. A tour de force." -- Anthony Alvarado, chancellor of instruction, San Diego City Schools
"The sign of outstanding and inspired leadership is the ability to lead rather than be led by the forces of change. How do leaders in private, public, and not-for-profit sectors meet the challenges of today's complex world? This book shows the way." -- Veronica Lacey, president and CEO, The Learning Partnership
"This is a book for all would-be heads of department and deputy heads. Every serving head should buy a copy. I shall buy at least 50 and enjoy giving them away to those at the start of their careers in the confident knowledge that the next generation will be more successful as leaders than the present one." -- Times Education Supplement
"Too often schools and businesses are seen as separate and foreign places. Michael Fullan blends the best of knowledge from each into an exemplary template for improving leadership in both." -- Terrence E. Deal, coauthor of Leading with Soul
"easy to read and understand"... -- Personnel Today, 2 October 2001
From the Back Cover:
Good leadership is not innate-one must learn to lead by mastering five core competencies
Business, nonprofit, and public sector leaders are facing new and daunting challenges-rapid-paced developments in technology, sudden shifts in the marketplace, and crisis and contention in the public arena. This book provides insights into the dynamics of change and the role of leadership in managing and coping with the change process. Leadership today requires the ability to mobilize constituents to do important but difficult work under conditions of constant change, overload, and fragmentation. This book shows leaders how they can effectively accomplish their goals-by attending to their broader moral purpose, keeping on top of the change process, cultivating relationships, sharing knowledge, and setting a vision and context for creating coherence in their organizations.
Michael Fullan (Toronto, Ontario) is Dean of the Ontario Institute for Studies in Education at the University of Toronto. He is recognized as an international authority on organizational change, and is currently engaged in training, consulting, and evaluating organizational change projects around the world. He is the author of numerous books, including Change Forces and The New Meaning of Educational Change.
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