The Six Secrets of Change: What the Best Leaders Do to Help Their Organizations Survive and Thrive Paperback – November 22, 2011

Successful leadership is defined in part, by how effectively a leader can lead an organization through change. Fullan's 6 Steps are common sense essentials that are all too often forgotten or overlooked in practice. This is a must read for any manager or leader to reacquaint oneself with these essentials to ensure the smoothest transitions during the difficult times of organizational change.

The 6 Secrets are invaluable nuggets that will help any good leader become better. Please read Fullan piece, as it has changes my disposition on leadership. The Toyoto research and leadership story make you go ... Hmmmmm! WOW!

Looking forward to discussing this book in class. The six secrets, some simple, some more complex, are well-described and illustrated with authentic examples. My only criticism is that they were sometimes overly-explained, although the argument can be made that the extremely thorough descriptions contribute to a most clear understanding of the six secrets and how they are used most effectively. Case-in-point: the author provides a statement that a concisely worded explanation of something can be made only when the speaker/writer thoroughly understands the "something". As redundant as some of the author's descriptions might be, I believe all of the explanations have helped me to be more concise in my own descriptions of the six secrets!

Just understanding the dynamics of our rapidly changing world, this book provides some outstanding perspectives for every employee and leader should learn about. The relations between the six secrets, "happiness hypothesis" and Shackleton's leadership would make a great seminar for any student of leadership!

This book was easy to read with simple principles. It highlighted texts from other authors which I found, in some cases, as a great opportunity to identify additional texts to read. In other cases, I cynically thought of course the author would mention oaks that support his stance. That being said, I thought the book was incredibly engaging. In fact I plan to reread the many parts I highlighted.

Michael Fullan has been working to discover change secrets for years allowing him to amass an extensive data base on the subject. His depth of understanding provides a unique view for the change agent of today. An intriguing aspect of the book is how Fullan goes beyond the work of Collins book Good to Great. If you are a fan of G2G you will appreciate the Six Secrets and how it moves change to the next level. This book will give you ideas to contemplate.

The secrets aren't that secret. It was a good reminder of considerations when it comes to business or education, but nothing stunning. Sometimes it was a little repetitive.

Good information - geared for educational leadership, but can be applied to any Leadership. The style of writing was almost painful for me to read, he cites almost every sentence - including citing himself in previously published materials constantly. The book could be half the length if he didn’t constantly cite himself.