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Title: The Q-Loop
Subtitle: The Art & Science of Lasting Corporate Change
Author: Brian Klapper
Narrator: Brandon Cassinelli
Format: Unabridged
Length: 6 hrs and 52 mins
Language: English
Release date: 12-20-13
Publisher: Bibliomotion, Inc
Ratings: 3 of 5 out of 2 votes
Genres: Business, Management
Publisher's Summary:
The business environment has never been more fast-paced and competitive. Survival, let alone success, depends on an organizations ability to recognize possibilities, innovate, implement change, and sustain that transformation.
Yet a paradox exists. How does an established organization filled with long-time employees, a deeply entrenched culture, and a history of drawn-out planning and development cycles become nimble, innovative, and responsive?
In The Q-Loop, Brian Klapper reveals the art and science of lasting transformation based on a proven, repeatable model. Learn how to unlock the potential of your organizations collective intelligence to create buy-in from top to bottom.
The Q-Loop extracts the deep knowledge that resides with front line employees, breaks down their inherent resistance to change, and converts them into passionate advocates who are fully invested in leading the organization to achieve transformational results.
Critic Reviews:
This audiobook takes the change bull by the horns it gets directly at what management needs to do to tee up and implement productive change, rather than announce yet another change program." (Ian MacMillan, PhD, the Dhirubhai Ambani Professor of Innovation and Entrepreneurship; Director, Sol C. Snider Entrepreneurial Research Center, Wharton Graduate School of Business)
Members Reviews:
Thanks for some really insightful and valuable writing
Brian, we really like the following:
- Your writing style: Your conversational style, and ability to anticipate what the reader might be thinking, helps to get across your own thinking in a way that has a good chance of changing the reader's thinking. (Which of course IS the point, and it very difficult since the reader's thinking is very likely to be ingrained and in need of some "revising".)
- The sequencing/pedagogy. Again, we know the point is to open the reader's eyes and cause learning, and we think you've done very well on that.
- The practical tools/surveys. We think these do a great job of making everything real to the reader...allowing the reader to adapt his/her thinking real time based on the learning that is happening.
- The data points and mini-stories are very well placed, reiterating the key learning points. The stories of course make key points real. And the data points "twist" the reader's head to see key points from a slightly different, yet reinforcing angle.
- You are critical of "traditional consulting" (and rightly so!)...but not in an offensive way. (It must have been hard to hold back at times.)
- And of course, our views are very much aligned...especially with regard to people and change.
There are a few things that we think most readers/organizations will need more help on (but we also think might well have caused distractions to include them in this book):
- A "process" for selecting problems/initiatives (i.e. the beginnings of some sort of initiative portfolio governance approach), to ensure that all initiatives are the right ones done in the right way, and that the Klapper approach is fully leveraged.
- An illustration of some kind of what a transformation in full swing looks like...meaning, what it looks like when many teams/projects are in flight.
