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The Six Secrets of Change: What the Best Leaders Do to Help Their Organizations Survive and Thrive

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This is a business book that takes a critical, detached view of business books. Michael Fullan provides a perspective within which to view all the gimmicks, techniques and fads that you might read elsewhere. And his own "secrets" are not some magic bullet that will replace those gimmicks, but rather principles that can only be learned by being reflected upon, applied, reflected upon some more and applied some more.

Sounds like work! But isn't that what real change takes? "It may seem odd that in this book I am giving you advice and then cautioning you to doubt it, but that's precisely what I am doing," Fullan says in his introduction. For example, his first "secret" is to love your employees. But if you love your employees, you had better balance that with love for your customers.

Fullan finds the best in other business books/research and presents it in capsule form. You can go to the source if you want more detail. One article he cites is "Professional Development: A Great Way to Avoid Change." I love it! Two pages later he lists "seven self-destructive habits of good companies" outlined by J. Sheth.

Instead of reading five books on business leadership, my suggestion is to read this one five times . . . over a period of a couple of years. It may make a positive difference.