Change Intelligence is an engaging read, enlightening for me personally as a leader and a great basis for team conversations. Understanding where you fall as a change leader is the compelling part of this book, and exploring the different styles of change leaders is incredibly thought provoking. Having gone through a sizable merger and facing system-wide change, the CQ process helps me as a CEO and my senior management team identify issues on how to lead our organization. -Peter Bergmann, President and CEO, Sisters of Charity Hospital, Catholic Health System -- Peter Bergmann, President and CEO, Sisters of Charity Hospital, Catholic Health System -- 20130514 As the president of a steelmaker in charge of leading changes from integrating acquisitions to pursuing new markets to implementing new technologies, I can tell you from direct experience that the CQ System works. Change Intelligence is more than just an entertaining read or abstract theory: Trautlein provides a clear roadmap for developing change leadership organization-wide using proven case studies on building bench strength from the executive suite to the shop floor and equipping change leaders. -Dick Teets, Executive Vice President for Steelmaking and President and Chief Operating Office for Steel Operations, Steel Dynamics, Incorporated -- Dick Teets, Executive Vice President for Steelmaking and President and Chief Operating Office for Steel Operations, Steel Dynamics, Incorporated -- 20130514 Change Intelligence not only provides a tool for identifying a person's strengths and blind spots for effective change, but also provides a practical 'how to use' guide through case studies. Walking through each scenario of high heart, high head, and high hands articulates very well the watch outs that we all typically encounter and identifies what can be done to avert the stepping on a landmine. Help the hands, engage the brain, inspire the heart; a winning formula for change execution. -Lyle Loutsch, Senior Director of Reliability and Engineering, Wells Enterprises, Incorporated -- Lyle Loutsch, Senior Director of Reliability and Engineering, Wells Enterprises, Incorporated -- 20130514 The one thing business leaders mess up most is the management of change. Too often they fail to strike the right balance between thought, action and emotion, leaving their team - and themselves - confused and bruised. In Change Intelligence Barbara Trautlein rigs the game for you. This insightful, powerful book removes the mystique from effective change management, and provides a intuitive but highly effective toolkit for managing change in any situation. Unless you spend your days working on your own in an underground bunker, you need to buy this book. -Les McKeown, Consultant and WSJ Bestselling Author -- Les McKeown, Consultant and WSJ Bestselling Author -- 20130514 Technology today is evolving at an incredibly rapid pace, and leaders face daunting challenges implementing change in their organizations. Whether you're a CIO, IT project manager or technology professional on the front lines, you'll find Trautlein's Change Intelligence provides a practical, insightful roadmap to help you effectively engage and equip your teams to navigate towards successful and sustainable transformation. -Carolyn Leighton, CEO, Chairwoman and Founder, Women in Technology International -- Carolyn Leighton, CEO, Chairwoman and Founder, Women in Technology International -- 20130514 Trautlein's book provides a novel and compelling approach to change management that focuses on self-knowledge as the means for making effective change stick. Change Intelligence invites change leaders to diagnose and understand their change management style, learn about its strengths and blindspots, all on the path towards building change intelligence. The book effectively identifies strategies for building our capacity to tap into the head, heart and hands of different change leadership styles. The book will be highly relevant and useful for any leader or manager trying to make effective change happen. -Jane E. Dutton, Ph.D., Robert L. Kahn, Distinguished University Professor of Business Administration and Psychology, University of Michigan -- Jane E. Dutton, Ph.D., Robert L. Kahn, Distinguished University Professor of Business Administration and Psychology, University of Michigan -- 20130514 Getting change to be accepted and truly implemented remain two of the biggest challenges of management. Trautlein provides a simple and concrete triple H framework (i.e., head, heart and hand) that can help individual managers as well as teams and organizations ensure they are addressing all relevant aspects of change. Not only does she present a useful framework, through her many concrete and real examples she shows how to apply the ideas in real life. The book provides opportunities for all of us, whether we are dominated by the head, heart or hand, to improve our change intelligence. -Robert Hooijberg, Ph.D., Professor of Organizational Behavior at IMD, Switzerland -- Robert Hooijberg, Ph.D., Professor of Organizational Behavior at IMD, Switzerland -- 20130514 Change Intelligence is well articulated, well-grounded, and well-presented work on change leadership. The framework of change leadership and intelligence based on head, heart and hands, and the different change leadership styles is a fascinating one. It is a major contribution to both theory as well as practice of change and leadership. It would be of use in diverse settings - both organizational as well as individual. The author motivates each of the styles with solid empirical examples, and develops them logically, coherently, and persuasively. The assessment tool that goes with this work will enhance the reach and the demand for this book. I have no hesitation is strongly endorsing this work. -Vipin Gupta, Ph.D., Professor of Professor and Co-director, Global Management Center, California State University at San Bernardino -- Vipin Gupta, Ph.D., Professor of Professor and Co-director, Global Management Center, California State University at San Bernardino -- 20130514
