Freedom to Change: Four Strategies to put your Inner Drive into Overdrive (Book Review)

Abstract

This book releases you from the trap of constantly telling yourself that you'd be more successful at teaching, leading, or contributing to an organization if only others didn't stand in your way. Fullan explores the two kinds of freedom in our daily lives: freedom from obstacles versus freedom to take initiative and act. What change would you like to bring about for yourself or those around you? Four dynamically interrelated actions are described: consciously seeking a balance between our own autonomy and cooperation with others; improving the feedback exchange giving more valuable responses, as well as eliciting, hearing, and accepting feedback more effectively; building accountability to others into the fabric of our working lives; finding ways to influence others with the changes we've made and want to spread. --