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Change with Confidence: Answers to the 50 Biggest Questions that Keep Change Leaders Up at Night
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Change with Confidence: Answers to the 50 Biggest Questions that Keep Change Leaders Up at Night

by Phil Buckley
April 2013
Intermediate to advanced
272 pages
5h 4m
English
Jossey-Bass
Audiobook available
Content preview from Change with Confidence: Answers to the 50 Biggest Questions that Keep Change Leaders Up at Night

Chapter 21

How Do I Get Leaders to Personally Commit to the Project?

While the mind looks for proof, the heart looks for engagement. While the mind looks for information, the heart looks for passion.

—Terry Pearce

Indifference and neglect often do much more damage than outright dislike.

—J.K. Rowling

Leaders can make or break a big change project. Given the power of their positions, they can reward the behaviors and actions they support and punish those they don't. Without their full support, a project has little chance of succeeding.

People will emulate leaders' behaviors, believing they have silent permission to parrot actions demonstrated at the top of the power hierarchy. Leaders' lack of visible commitment, reluctance to adopt new behaviors, ...

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ISBN: 9781118556573