Creating Effortless Change

Book excerpt: Creating Effortless Change looks at leading change by offering a fundamental shift in the perspective of leadership. By redefining leadership and offering a new perspective for leaders, the author shows how extraordinary Change Leaders make the impossible become routine, the uncontrollable become manageable, and resistance become alignment. What leadership does is important. How leadership is, is even more important. This book explores how leadership is. You probably don't need this book if you: -Get all of the cooperation you need to get things done -Simply tell people to do something, and they do it -Have no difficult situations with people -Have no conflict in the workplace or your personal life -Can leave people alone and they get all their work done -Believe there is nothing else to learn about leadership -Don't want to read but will wait for the audiobook -Don't like to read and don't want to You probably can use this book if you: -Find that things don't work out as you would like them to -Believe that leading has challenges -Don't understand why people don't agree with the 'right' way to do things -Wonder how others get so much done with so little time -Know that there must be better ways to lead change -Wonder why change is so hard -Are curious about the future of leadership and change From the Foreword by Claude Cloutier, Ph.D., CEO of XtremeEDA: "This is a leading-edge book on change...the author is a change visionary whose Culture chapter on its own is priceless...offering a vision of where change and change leadership are going, with the theory, tools, techniques...experience, and wisdom ready to be adapted to your specific context and change initiative...this book shows how change should be effortless and fun."