The Science Behind Leadership Transformation Evidence Based Principles for Leading Organizations
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Produktdetails
Einband
Taschenbuch
Erscheinungsdatum
23.03.2026
Verlag
J. M. LockeSeitenzahl
332
Maße (L/B/H)
22,9/15,2/2 cm
Gewicht
540 g
Sprache
Englisch
EAN
9798995456209
Most leadership books tell you what great leaders do. This one tells you why it works-and why most change efforts don't. Somewhere between 60 and 70 percent of organizational change initiatives fail. Not because the strategy was wrong. Not because the leaders weren't committed. But because the people responsible for leading change didn't understand the one thing that determines whether transformation sticks or collapses: Human beings resist change for predictable, neurological reasons-and most leaders are fighting those reasons instead of working with them. The Science of Leadership Transformation is the book that changes how you lead change. Drawing on more than sixty years of peer-reviewed research in neuroscience, behavioral economics, organizational psychology, and social science, it gives leaders the evidence-based framework that separates the 30 percent of transformations that succeed from the 70 percent that don't. This is not motivational content dressed up as research. Every claim is sourced. Every finding is accurately represented. And the implications are specific enough to change what you do on Monday morning. Here is what the research actually shows: The single biggest driver of team engagement is not culture programs, compensation, or leadership vision-it's the immediate manager. Gallup's data from thirty million employees across 195 countries shows managers explain the majority of why some teams are deeply engaged and others are not. Change doesn't spread uniformly. It moves through populations in a mathematically predictable sequence-and research shows that genuine commitment from just 25 percent of the relevant population is sufficient to tip an entire organizational culture, rapidly and permanently. The human brain processes organizational change as physical danger. The same neural circuits that evolved to protect us from predators activate when roles shift, hierarchies change, or certainty disappears. Leaders who understand the five specific threat triggers-and how to address them-produce measurably better outcomes than those who don't. Culture is not values on a wall. It is the aggregate of habitual behaviors that people enact automatically. Changing culture means changing habits-and habits live in a part of the brain that willpower cannot reliably override. Transformational leadership produces effects roughly double those of management by reward and consequence-across every outcome studied in one of the most cited meta-analyses in organizational psychology. Twenty-one chapters. Sixty years of research. One integrated framework. You will learn the mathematics of how change spreads and how many committed people it takes to make it inevitable. You will understand the psychology of why people resist even beneficial change-and what actually moves them. You will have the neuroscience of threat response, habit formation, flow states, and psychological safety explained in terms specific enough to act on. And you will see how engagement, tribal culture, participation, and organizational measurement work together as the foundation that either sustains or undermines everything else. Ideal for: Executives, senior leaders, managers, change agents, MBA students, organizational development professionals, and anyone who has ever led a transformation and wondered why it was harder than it should have been.
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