The Seven Arts of Change: Leading Business Transformation That Lasts - Hardcover

Many businesses try to change, but few succeed. According to David Shanerm, a business consultant with a 100 per cent success rate of change at companies including Duracell and Gillette, the problem is that the changes made don't address either individuals or the corporate culture. Combining lessons drawn from four decades of Aikido with knowledge gleaned from his 20-year consulting career, Shaner merges Eastern philosophy with Western business savvy to present his Seven Arts of Change (including the Arts of Preparation, Relaxation and Compassion), showing how individual adjustments, from the CEO down, can transform a company. Using exercises, strategies and real-life examples to show how to awaken the untapped potential in any organisation and every person within it, Shaner shows how to create change built to last.

David Shaner has been a business consultant working with Fortune 500 companies all over the world for the past 20 years. He holds an endowed chair as a professor of philosophy and Asian studies at Furman University and was a 1985-86 Harvard-Mellon Faculty Fellow. He is also an internationally renowned master and teacher of Aikido and holds a seventh-degree black belt.