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The power to change : how to harness change to make it work for you / Campbell Macpherson.

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"How we work, the way we live, even how long we live are changing at such a breathtaking pace that only those who can embrace everything that's going on and reinvent themselves will survive and thrive. Yet change - even good change - is tough. Most of us feel utterly powerless when confron...

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Online Access: Full Text (via ProQuest)
Main Author: Macpherson, Campbell, 1963- (Author)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: London, United Kingdom ; New York, NY : Kogan Page, [2020]
Subjects:
Organizational change.
Change (Psychology)
Organizational change
Table of Contents:
  • Cover
  • Contents
  • About the author
  • Preface: The pandemic that changed our world
  • Acknowledgements
  • PART ONE Our rapidly changing world
  • 01 The technology revolution
  • The web we weave
  • The end of truth?
  • The Internet of Things
  • Why build when you can print?
  • Artificial intelligence: terminator or liberator?
  • Augmented intelligence
  • Cars are so last millennium
  • 02 The age of the centurian
  • Who wants to live forever?
  • 03 Climate change: the dangerous power of denial
  • Rising sea levels
  • When opinions trump facts
  • Trumping the President.
  • 04 Boyan Slat and the Millennials
  • Drowning in plastic
  • The Millennials
  • 05 The way we work has changed forever
  • Self-employed, anxious and earning low wages: welcome to the gig economy
  • The lows of the High Street
  • Employer loyalty continues to wane
  • Embrace the change
  • PART TWO The psychology of change
  • 06 The power of the mind
  • The placebo effect
  • Placebo surgery
  • The nocebo effect
  • 07 All change is personal
  • 08 All change is emotional
  • Losing weight: when emotion and logic collide, emotion wins
  • To carb or not to carb?
  • The death of the calorie.
  • The logical part of the solution to losing weight
  • Do what I say, not what I do
  • Emotional default settings
  • PART THREE How we react to different types of change
  • 09 The Change Matrix
  • 10 The 'Burning Platform' Change Curve
  • How we react to 'Burning Platform' change... big change that is thrust upon us
  • The cold comfort of victimhood
  • Reframe your way out of the trough
  • Escaping the 'victim triangle'
  • After the trough
  • A pause for reflection
  • 11 Personal reflections of reacting to Burning Platform change
  • Like father like son
  • Like mother like daughter.
  • Like daughter like mother
  • 12 The 'Quantum Leap' Change Curve
  • How we react to 'Quantum Leap' change... change that we have chosen
  • 13 Life in the Quantum Leap Change Curve
  • The moment an oncologist discovers she is investing in tobacco
  • From Australia to the world
  • The Pledge
  • Doing good vs doing well
  • Dr Bronwyn King and the Quantum Leap Change Curve
  • The Empire strikes back?
  • Lessons on change from Dr Bronwyn King
  • 14 Returning to The Matrix
  • A blinding glimpse of the obvious
  • PART FOUR Overcoming the barriers we erect to change
  • 15 Admitting denial
  • Denial.
  • Admitting denial
  • 16 Harnessing our emotions
  • Emotions
  • A change of status can unleash resistance to change
  • We need to be treated fairly
  • How to harness our emotions
  • 17 Confronting our fears
  • Fear
  • 18 Finding good tribes
  • Our need to belong can lead to a mistrust, even fear, of others
  • Tolerance is wrong
  • Find good tribes
  • 19 Reframing our identity
  • Identity
  • Reframe our identity
  • 20 Testing our doubts
  • Doubts
  • Test your doubts
  • 21 Detaching from our negative thoughts
  • Negative thoughts
  • Imagine...
  • Overcoming your negative thoughts.

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