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The Dance of Change is a very good collection of the experiences of many outstanding managers and scholars who believe that the ideas expressed in The Fifth Discipline are the way forward for the learning organizations in the new millennium. The Dance of Change takes these ideas further, challenging the traditional views that leadership skills should only be present in managers. (Taking a systemic view on this particular assumption, the reader will be able to see how this misconception lead so many good projects into disasters.) The contributors take on a difficult task of analyzing the winning and losing factors in the group leadership and development, stressing a Taoist view of the manager as a facilitator rather than an instrument of change. In fact, The Dance of Change is one of quite a few mainstream management and leadership books that considered oriental martial arts as one of important parts of contemporary leadership practice. I should confess that when I read the Personal Mastery chapter in The Fifth Discipline, I had a feeling that Peter Senge came very close to actually recommending to use some of the martial arts exercises like meditation and observation, in the management practice. It is impossible to read The Dance of Change without filling your notebook with an endless number of ideas that you would want to implement in your workplace. Being dedicated to the concept of teamwork, The Dance of Change is a team book to its very fabric, you won’t be able to avoid discussing it in a group of colleagues: so much wisdom this book contains. To try to explore the uncharted waters of successful organizational change is an enormous task in itself. To take it even further, in every chapter you will find a whole range of references to the resources both in print and on the Web looking more deeply into each of the aspect of developing a learning organization. Accumulating and systemizing the latest achievements in this area of
management thought, The Dance of Change makes a truly outstanding
contribution towards creating an “atlas of organizational change”.
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