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The Heart of Transformation: Build the Human Capabilities that Change Organizations for Good

The Heart of Transformation: Build the Human Capabilities that Change Organizations for Good

Author: Michael J. Leckie
Publisher: Kogan Page
ISBN: 9781398600089
Published In: July 2021
Format: Paperback , 240 pages
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Leverage your biggest asset and develop the six human capabilities that are the true drivers of change for achieving lasting transformation in a landscape of increasingly complex technological change.

Technology doesn't transform organizations - people do.

In an era of technological and constant change, companies are bombarded with urgent advice to become more agile, lean and digital. Billions are spent on digital transformation efforts with the promise that these efforts will increase competitive advantage. Yet even when only 30 percent of these efforts succeed, this hard-won competitive advantage only lasts until the next disruption before the cycle repeats, causing transformation fatigue. The Heart of Transformation breaks this cycle by suggesting that the pace and complexity of change is too great and too complex to be addressed by a single change effort or transformation. The answer lies in the organization's greatest asset: its people. In the face of complexity, it is the people and their ability to adapt and learn that are the true engine of organizational change.

The Heart of Transformation outlines the six human capabilities (Exploring before Executing, Learning before Knowing, Pathfinding before Path Following, Changing before Protecting, Innovating before Replicating and Humanizing before Organizing) that create competitive advantage for organizations organically, quickly and from the bottom up. The book translates those capabilities into simple and immediately adoptable behaviors for leaders and every person in the organization. It offers a new standard for organizational excellence, one that is dependent on the organization's ability to be deeply human. Instead of offering another one-size-fits-all solution, The Heart of Transformation reveals that by leveraging our most human of capabilities, organizations can change better, faster and achieve excellence much quicker than imagined.
Chapter - 01: Introduction;
Chapter - 02: Why Our Digital World Demands a Humanity Fix;
Chapter - 03: Whistle While You Work - Life Doesn't Happen in Theory;
Chapter - 04: Exploration over Execution;
Chapter - 05: Learning over Knowing;
Chapter - 06: Changing over Protecting;
Chapter - 07: Humanizing over Organizing;
Chapter - 08: Innovating over Replicating;
Chapter - 09: Pathfinding over Path Following
Michael Leckie is the former Chief Learning Officer for the Digital Industrial Transformation at General Electric (GE) and is currently founding partner of Silverback Partners, LLC, an organizational consultancy based in Ridgefield, Connecticut. He also held the position of Managing Vice President in Gartner's Executive Programs business, managing teams that provided executive coaching, strategic guidance and research-based advisory services to Gartner's C-suite clients. He speaks, coaches and advises all over the world and across most industries: public, private and non-profit.
The Heart of Transformation does beautifully what so many books on change management and leadership fail to do: bring the human element to front and center. Change is not an abstract process that occurs in systems; it is an intensely human process that begins in the change agents themselves and comes to involve all the members of an organization personally. While we take this for granted, it takes a book like this to show us how it works in detail.

Edgar Schein, Professor Emeritus of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology Sloan School of Management; Chairman of the Organizational Culture and Leadership Institute