The Art of Transformation

By Nancy Desmond and Newt Gingrich

A primer on large scale transformational change. This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1933966009
• ISBN13: 9781933966007
• Release Date: November 2006
• Publisher: Cht Press
• Length: 373 Pages
• Weight: 1.40 lbs.

Customer Reviews

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I can't speak too highly of this book. Started reading it as soon as I got it and couldn't put it down. While the theme of transformation here is mainly applied to changing public policy such as healthcare, I found many principles that can be extrapolated to any organization, big or small. Can you imagine a system which develops specfic metrics that drive decision making based on constant communication, innovation, and improvement in an environment of agile, networked teams with a culture of shared purpose, engagement, and fun? Sounds like something mid-level management will describe in a memo that the consultant will talk about in a lunch meeting in two months, right? Well, Speaker Gingrich and Ms. Desmond detail how to accomplish this in your organization. How many bosses or managers have you had that are real leaders? Not many, right? Well, how would you like to have a leader who followed the principle of moral responsibility with a specific described vision of success and pursued it with energy, resilience and peristence? How would those in your charge respond to your leadership if they knew that you depended on them, responded to their recommendations, learned from them, and had a good time doing it? Think your organization might be more effective? I would think! Much has been made of nimble, creative, effective organizations since the inception of the Web, harkening back to the "old" dot-com days. However, we still work in slow, hierarchial, disconnected organizations whose dysfunctions bury our creativity and smother our energy. Want to change that? Get this book and let these folks show you what to do.