Creating Effortless Change

Creating Effortless Change looks at leading change by offering a fundamental shift in the perspective of leadership. By redefining leadership and offering a new perspective for leaders, the author shows how extraordinary Change Leaders make the impossible become routine, the uncontrollable become manageable, and resistance become alignment. What leadership does is important. How leadership is, is even more important. This book explores how leadership is.

Creating Effortless Change looks at leading change by offering a fundamental shift in the perspective of leadership. By redefining leadership and offering a new perspective for leaders, the author shows how extraordinary Change Leaders make the impossible become routine, the uncontrollable become manageable, and resistance become alignment. What leadership does is important. How leadership is, is even more important. This book explores how leadership is. You probably don't need this book if you: - Get all of the cooperation you need to get things done - Simply tell people to do something, and they do it - Have no difficult situations with people - Have no conflict in the workplace or your personal life - Can leave people alone and they get all their work done - Believe there is nothing else to learn about leadership - Don't want to read but will wait for the audiobook - Don't like to read and don't want to You probably can use this book if you: - Find that things don't work out as you would like them to - Believe that leading has challenges - Don't understand why people don't agree with the 'right' way to do things - Wonder how others get so much done with so little time - Know that there must be better ways to lead change - Wonder why change is so hard - Are curious about the future of leadership and change From the Foreword by Claude Cloutier, Ph.D., CEO of XtremeEDA: "This is a leading-edge book on change…the author is a change visionary whose Culture chapter on its own is priceless…offering a vision of where change and change leadership are going, with the theory, tools, techniques…experience, and wisdom ready to be adapted to your specific context and change initiative...this book shows how change should be effortless and fun."

Marc Hanlan, Ph.D. has been supporting group transformations for more than 35 years in a wide range of public and private organizations, from the 82,000-user US Navy ERP to the operational transformation of thousands of field service workers at Exelon to the creation of self-managed factories at Lockheed/GE. He has worked with more than 255 high performance teams achieving 55-85% improvements in productivity, profitability, quality of service, sustainability, and quality of work life, while achieving more than $400M in improvements. Dr. Hanlan has overseen transformation of aerospace plants to MIL-Q-9858/ISO-9000, instituted TQM and managed supplier quality improvements to top-tier status, and holds a Master Black Belt in Lean Six Sigma. He has developed leading-edge technologies in High Performance Teams, Transcendent Organizations, Transactive and Transformational leadership. He is currently CEO of LLMC Partners, a global consulting firm. Dr. Hanlan has developed organizational and culture change methodologies for several global management consultancies. He is the holder of international patents covering material processing and motor controls cited by 69 other patents. He has held senior executive positions in manufacturing, services, and consulting, including 23 years of successful Profit/Loss responsibility including 8-figure budgets. He has flown aerobatics with advanced private ratings, measured Earth-Moon orbits for the U.S. Air Force, designed part of the International Space Station, and started numerous companies along the way. Dr. Hanlan is the author of a textbook on breakthrough change cited in 27 other texts. He has taught Leadership and Organizational Development for 18 years at the graduate level at Penn State and the Philadelphia College of Osteopathic Medicine, developing and teaching dozens of courses in teams, leadership, breakthrough strategy, Lean Six Sigma, and change. He holds a Ph.D. in Organizational Development and Change from Fielding Graduate University, an M.A. in Human and Organizational Systems, and a B.Sc. in Physics and Astronomy. His doctoral dissertation was, "the Experience and Dynamics of Developing a Transcendent Team." Dr. Hanlan is a postdoctoral Fellow of the Institute for Social Innovation of Fielding Graduate University.