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Irresistible Change

A Blueprint for Earning Buy-In and Breakout Success

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Irresistible Change

By: Phil Gilbert
Narrated by: Joel Richards
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Irresistible Change: A Blueprint for Earning Buy-In and Breakout Success details one of the largest and most formidable transformations in corporate history: to shift the foundations of work for IBM's nearly 400,000 employees and thousands of interdisciplinary teams across 180 countries and help them become more entrepreneurial, agile, and customer focused.

Written by Phil Gilbert, IBM's former general manager of design and architect of this ambitious change effort, this book is part narrative and part field guide. It describes how the choices made at IBM affected the change Program Office's development at each stage of its growth and provides listeners with key insights they need to conduct transformational change within their own organizations.

This book includes insights on:

  • Getting buy-in for change, the biggest challenge that holds back even the most ambitious change efforts, by making it something exciting rather than inevitable
  • Seeing change as a high-stakes "product" deserving of the same resources and rigor as your top-performing business lines
  • Recognizing today's newly empowered and often skeptical employees who resist authority and value autonomy and stability
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Excellent! Leanly written, the author’s pragmatic account of using design theory to accomplish cultural change throughout a global company with 400,000 employees is coolly inspiring. Gilbert’s book reports planning tensions, obstacles encountered, keys to agile adaptation, actions he wished he had taken sooner, and means of making change last. Valuable insights for any leader striving to drive change.

Thorough, credible report on management of substantial change at scale.

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I bought the book as well as a few others to give as gifts. I also downloaded the audio version after reading it which was very helpful.
This is a story of entrepreneurship with in a major blue chip co. Anyone who feels stuck in a rigid business structure will benefit greatly from reading / listening. There may be light @ the end of the tunnel & it's not an oncoming train. The stories are major learning tools somewhat over my head. as Im way out of my league but written almost as morality plays gave them real context. The audio version put it in the classroom for me, finally landing it. There are two adages that continually came to mind while reading: 1) never confuse an idea for a plan. 2.) Don't let the perfect be the enemy of the good.

B School In 7 hrs. 53 mins.!

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