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Your roadmap to becoming the CEO of your own job and a leader for organizational change. Argues that the responsibility for renewing the vital bond of trust and commitment is far too important a task to be left to senior management, and shows how you can secure your own future--and the future of your organization--by responding actively, creatively, and effectively to the new demands of the organization in flux. Demonstrates why now--more than ever--we must take responsibility for becoming leaders of change rather than waiting for our organizations to take the first step.

Dennis T. Jaffe, Cynthia D. Scott, and Glenn R. Tobe draw on their extensive consulting experience with corporate executives and managers of such leading organizations as IBM, Pacific Bell, General Mills, The Gap, National Semiconductor, and Estee Lauder to demonstrate how to: * create a new employee empowerment contract * define the values and vision that will guide you to a new sense of mastery in life and work * develop a committed, productive workforce across the organization * invest in the future by designing work groups and systems that develop the new skills and capabilities required in yourself, in others, and in the organization.

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• Part 1 Empowering Yourself
• 1 Learn the New Competencies for Success: Practicing Commitment, Control, Challenge, and Connection
• 2 Align What You Want with What the Organization Needs: Writing the New Work Contract
• 3 Release Your Personal Power: Becoming a Leader of Change
• 4 Take Responsibility: Linking Commitment to Action
• Part 2 Changing Your Organization
• 5 The Empowered Workplace: Learning the Dynamics of Change
• 6 Organizational Purpose: Defining Values, Mission, and Vision
• 7 From Denial to Commitment: Helping Yourself and Others Make the Transition
• Part 3 Building Commitment Together
• 8 Be a Partner: Fostering Collaboration, Mutuality, and Respect
• 9 Learn Together: Creating a Climate of Inquiry, Discovery, and Continual Improvement
• Epilogue: If You Don2t Do It, Nobody Will: Pioneering the New Workplace

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Library Journal Review

Jaffe and coauthor/spouse Cynthia Scott are owners of a San Francisco-based consulting firm specializing in family-run businesses. They have written this work to encourage and assist the average employee to become a change leader in today's uncertain work environment. In this day of reengineering and reductions in force, the authors suggest that individuals who can form and lead small, organized groups focusing on quality will hold the key to change. Not without some risk to the individual, change can commence in the lower ranks, leading to empowerment. Uncertainty is a constant, and the authors suggest ways of dealing with it. They also provide some advice for making the transition: be a partner. With discussions about pyramids vs. circles, empowerment, quality, and personal power, the authors offer little that's new. Appropriate for public libraries.-Randy Abbott, Univ. of Evansville Libs., Ind. (c) Copyright 2010. Library Journals LLC, a wholly owned subsidiary of Media Source, Inc. No redistribution permitted.

Booklist Review

A number of writers have recently noted the link between trust and organizational vitality. The authors here warn of a crisis of spirit in today's workplace because organizations are failing their workers and losing their trust and commitment. Jaffe and his coauthors head a San Francisco-based organization development firm called HeartWork. They issue a challenge to individuals who are concerned about their own level of commitment to begin the process of change from within and become a leader of change, arguing that "empowerment and change start in the middle and move up the organization rather than from the top down." They next discuss changes that need to be made within the organization and then focus on how individuals and organizations can work together successfully as partners. ~--David Rouse

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GLENN R. TOBE are partners in HeartWork Inc., a San Francisco-based systems-oriented organizational consulting firm that partners with companies to build sustainable employee involvement and commitment. Together they authored Organizational Vision, Values and Mission (1993). Jaffe is the author of Working With The Ones You Love (1990) and Jaffe and Scott co-authored Managing Change and the best-selling Take This Job and Love It (1988).