afox98's review
5.0
Outstanding book with easy-to-understand principles I can immediately apply. The concepts and suggestions covered here will help tremendously with a huge change initiative I'm conducting at work, but you can apply them in any type of change situation, professional or personal. The book has impacted me enough that I plan to take half a day next week to map out specific ways I can implement these ideas to bring people on board with my change initiative. Great examples that really bring the principles to life also. Highly recommended.
dorothy_gale's review
3.0
3 stars... Was good to get some background on ideas that one of our safety consultants at work had shared, but overall not hugely enlightening. The core concepts are easy to remember: direct the rider, motivate the elephant, clear the path. Basically provide super clear instructions for the rational part of your brain (reduce mental paralysis), inspiration to your emotional side, and consider the situational or environment factors (remove obstacles). The "bright spots" idea is in this book (copying things that are going right).
roseybot's review
3.0
Generally good, and if you haven't done a tone of reading in psychology/medicine, there is a lot to learn. Unfortunately, I knew most of the studies presented and while they supported the theories, it made it a bit of a dull read.
statman's review
3.0
Interesting read about how to make changes, whether it is at the personal level, an organization level or societal level. They argue that it is really not so much how to get people to change but rather how to change their environment and process around them so that they are funnelled into the behavior that you want them to do.
poetsofsweetpea's review against another edition
informative
inspiring
fast-paced
5.0
Excellent book. It broke down the elements of change and included how to motivate others as well as how to clear the path.