About this title: "The Six Secrets of Change" explores essential lessons for business and public sector leaders for surviving and thriving in today's complex environment. He draws on his acclaimed work in bringing about large-scale and substantial change in education reform in both public school systems and universities, as well as engaging in major change ...
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Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Jossey-Bass Inc Pub
Date Published: 2008-04-04
ISBN-13:9780787988821ISBN:0787988820
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Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Jossey Bass
Date Published: 2008
ISBN-13:9780787988821ISBN:0787988820
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Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Jossey-Bass
Date Published: 2008
ISBN-13:9780787988821ISBN:0787988820
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Binding: Hardback
Publisher: JOHN WILEY AND SONS LTD Country = UNITED STATES
Date Published: 2008
ISBN-13:9780787988821ISBN:0787988820
Description: BRAND NEW HARDBACK. 176 pages. Explores useful lessons for business and public sector leaders for surviving and thriving in a complex environment. this book offers illustrative examples from a variety of businesses, health organizations, and public education systems. illustrations (Hardback) read more
Binding: Hardback
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons Inc
Date Published: 2008
ISBN-13:9780787988821ISBN:0787988820
Description: New. The keys to success lie within every organization In The Six Secrets of Change, Michael Fullan lays out factors that allow an organization to sustain meaningful change. Collegiality must be deliberately cultivated, long-range plans must allow for the... read more
Binding: Hardback
Publisher: John Wiley and Sons Ltd
Date Published: 2008
ISBN-13:9780787988821ISBN:0787988820
Description: New. Explores useful lessons for business and public sector leaders for surviving and thriving in a complex environment. This book offers illustrative examples from a variety of businesses, health organizations, and public education systems. read more
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Description: New. PLEASE NOTE: All books are promptly imported from the UK using International Priority Airmail. Delivery is typically 5-10 working days. Please do not select expedited shipping. Heavier and more expensive items have tracking number. Professional and reliable bookseller (est.1987). Praise for The Six Secrets of Change "Fullan has an uncanny ability to produce what is needed at the time it is needed. The six secrets are based in theory, grounded in practice, powerful in their relationship to ... read more
"I like Michael Fullan--I really do. He cuts through all the managerial blah-blah and asserts that it's really moral purpose that guides positive change in schools and other organizations. In the introduction (one of the better parts of the book), he says "give me a good theory over a plan of action any day," a phrase designed to strike terror in the hearts of any number of superintendents. His six secrets are the right stuff, although they don't move his body of work or thinking much beyond his best book, "Change Forces."
However--
Philosophical ideas: B+ Writing: D
Fullan's books are all poorly written. The prose is turgid and full of cliches. The ideas meander. This book has about 125 undersized pages that would amount to perhaps 80 pages in a larger, paper-bound book. And in those 80 pages, there are perhaps three chapters' worth of new thinking.
Reading a Fullan book is like having a conversation with a wise and trusted professor, thinking out loud about his latest projects and ideas. He does things like introduce a concept, then say "I'll talk about that in a later chapter." Or you'll read an entire chapter which is nothing more than a rather random series of disconnected thought, larded with little, semi-related puns or jokes. He has probably passed the fame threshold wherein he's forced to use a good and ruthless editor--but it really would help.
I get a lot from Fullan's books, but it's a tough slog."
"There's a lot of poor writing in this. There's also a great deal of "I'll explain this idea precisely and with lots of examples." And then I'd get to the end of the chapter and still be waiting for the precise explanation and lots of examples.
There are a few interesting ideas in this book. The idea of balancing the feelings of utmost confidence in what we're doing with the humbleness of being open-minded about ideas that might be better than those we're using is probably my favorite."
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