Leading Change: How to Achieve Superior Results with Gentle Pressure Relentlessly Applied
Tired of high hopes for your teams fizzling into disaster? Learn how to engage every member and create lasting success.
Are you frustrated with mind-numbing change management books full of impractical theories? Do you worry that taking charge of new responsibilities will be a dead-end road? Are you a visionary eager to make a mark on the world? With thirty-five years of retail leadership and twenty as a consultant with successful small businesses under his belt, Dan Mann has field-tested his winning formula to perfection. And now he's here to help you leverage both past failures and achievements into vital tools for solving complex problems.
Leading Change is a practical and humorous look at how to ensure your coaching, entrepreneurial leaps, or work promotions pay off. Using his powerful Gentle Pressure Relentlessly Applied framework, Mann offers a realistic approach to the challenges that leaders face in order to crush previously impenetrable barriers and promote progress. And by putting his tactics into action, you'll soon defeat old headaches while securing top-notch results from your current team.
In Leading Change, you'll discover:
- How creating buy-in from participants will let you reap the payoffs you envision
- Ways to build a culture of accountability that turns hires into valuable assets
- Strategies for communication that transcend generational barriers and drive unity
- Diagnoses of common mistakes to mold them into stepping-stones toward effective transformation
- Step-by-step outlines, enjoyable personal anecdotes, real client success stories, insight into how to use metrics, and much, much more!
Leading Change: How to Achieve Superior Results with Gentle Pressure Relentlessly Applied is a relatable, entertaining handbook for anyone guiding a team to the next level. If you like simple-to-follow steps, engaging examples, and advice from the trenches, then you'll love Dan Mann's dynamic process.
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"Leading Change humanizes and simplifies the change management process. Dan Mann leverages a wide variety of relatable examples, along with his extensive experience, to entertain and inspire me to be a better leader. The variety of examples from the sports, business, and music worlds make this book a highly relatable and interesting read, with a simple-to-follow roadmap to help leaders solve complex problems."
-NOLAN MOSER, assistant vice president, Shimano Bicycle
"Dan Mann's approach to turning a vision into reality is spot-on. His 'gentle pressure, relentlessly applied' methodology puts the basic blocking and tackling of leadership into terms that leaders in all stages of their careers can easily understand and apply. These solid leadership principles have stood the test of time. I will be ordering a copy of this book for my entire leadership team, at every level of the organization."
-TODD OUELLETTE, owner and president, Long-Lewis Auto Group, and finalist, TIME Dealer of the Year
"In Leading Change, Dan Mann has created a map for making change that is highly effective yet remarkably simple to follow. Dan is a gifted coach who is a master at applying gentle persuasion to achieve transformational change. This book is well-researched, equal parts strategic and simple, and contains powerful lessons for today's leaders. Highly recommend."
-BLAIR CLARK, president, Canyon US
"Leading Change is a beautifully written and effective follow-up to Dan Mann's first book, ORBiT. It details a common-sense roadmap for success and reminds us that there are no shortcuts for a leader looking to establish a culture of accountability in their organization. There is, however, a highly effective structure and process for bringing about such change. In Leading Change, Mann shows us the way."
-KELLY KNIGHT, Sun & Ski Sports
"Organizational change is never easy, and at times it can be downright scary. Working closely with Dan Mann, Red Rock Running Company was able to enact organizational change which made us an industry leader, setting standards in many key metrics that make us the envy of our peers. If you are looking for the leader's secret weapon to lasting change, this is the book for you."
-MARK JIMENEZ, Ed.D., owner, Red Rock Running Company
"Dan Mann's Leading Change is the perfect combination of philosophy and application that leaders need to succeed in business today. Mann combines his expertise, honed through years of practical application, with his storytelling skills to give us implementation examples that are spot-on and easy to apply. His Gentle Pressure Relentlessly Applied framework is powerful and comprehensive, yet simple, with tools and applications that are repeatable and proven, along with a comprehensive process anyone can follow."
-TODD DALHAUSSER, president, Altra Running
"Too many books about enacting change are full of theory and high-level ideas which leave you asking, 'what do I actually do with this?' Dan Mann's Leading Change and his Gentle Pressure Relentlessly Applied framework come from the experience and perspective of an actual practitioner. The framework leaps off the page with real-in-market examples, and the book will leave you superbly prepared to lead change in your own organization."
-RYAN MCCARTY, founder, Collective 12
