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Deep Change: Discovering the Leader Within
Robert E. Quinn Jossey-Bass San Francisco, CA 1996 ISBN: 0787902446 232 pp. $27.00
Keywords Leadership, Organizational change
In his most recent book, Deep Change: Discovering the Leader Within, Robert Quinn provides an insightful analysis of both personal change and organizational transformation. Using colorful examples from sports and his own consulting and research experiences, he illustrates the difficulty and resistance that deep change faces in traditional organizations. Summary exercises and points for discussion are provided at the end of each chapter, allowing the text to be an interactive and stimulating catalyst for both personal and organizational assessment.
Quinn does more than analyze and explore current buzzwords such as "empowerment" and "visionary leadership". He defines and illustrates these concepts with a precision and rigor that are rare in the management field. Building on his previous books, Becoming a Master Manager (1996) and Beyond Rational Management: Mastering the Paradoxes and Competing Demands of High Performance (1991), Quinn continues his discussion of leadership, focussing on the competing, often conflicting, values and demands that inhibit transformational leadership development. In Deep Change, he provides the theoretical and philosophical framework to support his earlier concept of "master managers" that emerge in transformational cycles within organizations.
Deep Change is divided into four sections and begins with a compelling argument for why this topic...