Leading in a Culture of Change

De: Michael Fullan

Narrado por: Brad Smith

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. If they are to survive in this chaotic environment, leaders must develop the skills they need to lead effectively no matter how fast the world around them is changing. 

Leading in a Culture of Change offers new and seasoned leaders' insights into the dynamics of change and presents a unique and imaginative approach for navigating the intricacies of the change process. Michael Fullan - an internationally acclaimed expert in organizational change - shows how leaders in all types of organizations can accomplish their goals and become exceptional leaders. He draws on the most current ideas and theories on the topic of effective leadership, incorporates case examples of large scale transformation, and reveals a remarkable convergence of powerful themes, or as he calls them, the five core competencies. 

By integrating the five core competencies - attending to a broader moral purpose, keeping on top of the change process, cultivating relationships, sharing knowledge, and setting a vision and context for creating coherence in organizations - leaders will be empowered to deal with complex change. They will be transformed into exceptional leaders who consistently mobilize their compatriots to do important and difficult work under conditions of constant change.

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Not 2020 Second Edition

While informative, the second edition has many more recent examples and applications. I hope it will come to Audible soon!

Great book, off-putting narration

I am reading this book in print, but needed to be able to listen to parts so I can get through faster. Unfortunately, the narrator is quite robotic and the voice has no feeling of a storyteller. It doesn’t seem like the reader cares about the story.

This is sad because the book is fascinating when I read it to myself. I will still finish listening, but this is a book I would have wanted to hear repeatedly if it had a better reader.

Very hard to follow and uninteresting narration

The content of this book is fine. I was assigned to read this as part of my masters program. I thought I would
listen to it while driving to help me get through the main ideas. However, it sounds like the person reading the book is actually a robot. The cadence is very choppy and hard to follow. Listening to it is like listening to word salad. Very hard to put together a coherent thought. Get a paper copy and read it—don’t waste your money on the audio version.