The Deep Change Field Guide: A Personal Course to Discovering the Leader Within

The Deep Change Field Guide

Based on Bob Quinn′s perennial bestseller, Deep Change, The Deep Change Field Guide takes readers through the introspective journey of personal transformation. This Field Guide streamlines, updates, and augments the content of the original book into an interactive self–teaching course that helps you learn how to become a powerful agent of change. Each chapter uses scenes from a familiar motion picture (Moneyball, Norma Rae, The King′s Speech, The Devil Wears Prada, Remember the Titans, Stand and Deliver, Dead Poets Society, and Gandhi) to illustrate the transformational process. The Guide also includes reflection questions and action plans that help you think about the concepts in terms of your own situation, and identify actions to embody the concepts in your life. The Field Guide has been carefully designed so that individual learners can gain the same benefits that students have long enjoyed in the author′s courses.

The Deep Change Field Guide is filled with illustrative stories, exercises, reflective questions, worksheets, and film assignments to help readers learn by putting the focus on the reader′s own thoughts and insights.

For anyone who yearns to be an internally driven leader, motivate the people around them, and develop a satisfying work life, The Deep Change Field Guide holds the key.

About This Field Guide xiii

1 AN INVITATION TO CHANGE 1

2 EXPERIENCING SLOW DEATH 27

3 THE POWER OF SELF–CHANGE 47

4 PERSONAL CHANGE AND POSITIVE ORGANIZING 69

5 THE FUNDAMENTAL STATE OF LEADERSHIP 95

6 MORAL POWER 113

7 LEADERSHIP AND POSITIVITY 127

8 INVITING OTHERS TO DEEP CHANGE 147

Put the Learning to Work 169

Continuing Your Journey 173

About the Author 177

Index 179

Robert E. Quinn holds the M.E. Tracy Collegiate Professorship at the University of Michigan and is professor of organizational behavior at the University of Michigan Business School. He is the author of numerous books including Building the Bridge As You Walk On It and Change the World. He consults with organizations all over the world and speaks extensively on the subject of deep change, most recently in South Africa and Dubai.