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Leading change : overcoming the ideology of comfort and the tyranny of custom
- Title
- Leading change : overcoming the ideology of comfort and the tyranny of custom / James O'Toole.
- Author
- O'Toole, James
- Publication
- San Francisco : Jossey-Bass Publishers, [1995]
- ©1995
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Details
- Description
- xviii, 282 pages : illustrations; 24 cm.
- Summary
- Confuses organisational change, management and leadership.
- Series Statement
- The Jossey-Bass management series
- Uniform Title
- Jossey-Bass management series.
- Subject
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 263-272) and index.
- Contents
- Christ comes to Brussels: an introduction to values-based leadership -- Part I: Leaders leading change -- The Rushmoreans: an indelible lesson in values-based leadership -- The corporate Rushmoreans: how to lead change effectively and morally -- The realists and the fallacy of tough leadership -- Why amoral leadership doesn't work -- Leaders of leaders: why values-based leadership is an unnatural act -- Why democratic leadership is not an oxymoron -- Part II: Followers resisting change -- Change resisted: thirty-three hypotheses why -- Drucker unheeded: two potent sources of resistance to change -- Deming ignored: premature articulation or flawed leadership? -- Owen unrecognized: the early promise of the new management -- Owen rejected: valid reasons or rationalizations? -- Mill interpreted: the despotism of custom -- The ideology of comfort: a "good enough" explanation of resistance to change -- Georges comes to the park: creating order through design, composition, tension, balance, and harmony.
- ISBN
- 1555426085
- 9781555426088
- LCCN
- 94039421
- OCLC
- ocm31329741
- 31329741
- SCSB-413296
- Owning Institutions
- Princeton University Library