Sustaining Change

This is a book destined for leaders who wish to implement change more intelligently and effortlessly. Drawing on a combination of rigorous research and extensive organizational experience, the authors present a framework for leading change, ?Changing Leadership?, that describes the specific leader practices they have found make the biggest difference between success and failure in implementing high magnitude change. In doing all of this, the leader works to make change happen in the day to day activity and conversations of the organization.

Foreword vii Acknowledgments xi 1 Introduction 1 Part I Defining Changing Leadership 15 2 Is change changing? 17 3 Are leaders leading? 57 4 Changing leadership – a framework 95 Part II Seeing Changing Leadership 133 5 Attractor – creating magnetic energy 139 6 Edge and tension – amplifies disturbance 173 7 Container – provides holding structure 207 8 Transforming Space – creates movement 241 Part III Working With Changing Leadership 275 9 Linking Changing Leadership 281 10 Developing Changing Leadership 321 11 Where next? 359 Recommended reading list 367 Index 369