Industry and business leaders had lots to say about Dutch's
last book, Change is the Rule. Read reviews below...
"You don't have to be afraid of change any longer: Change
Is the Rule offers entertaining and simple solutions that
will help you move swiftly and efficiently through the growing
pains of organizational change."
Ken Blanchard
Co-author, Who Moved My Cheese and The One Minute Manager
"What a great uncluttered road map for understanding,
embracing, and leading change. We have trained over 10 million
leaders worldwide, and change is their biggest challenge.
This book should be next on their reading list."
Dr. Paul Hersey
Chairman
Center for Leadership Studies
"Home of Situation Leadership"
"This book is concise, down-to-earth, and even entertaining.
Practical, nuts-and-bolts type people, if they want to read
only one book, should read this one to prepare for the next
big organizational change."
"Short, clear, and practical throughout. This book takes
the mystery out of engineering successful organizational change."
"Excellent book!"
John A. D'Angelo
Manager, Business Transformation Services
Schlumberger-GeoQuest
"Dutch Holland, through his 30 years of experience as
a businessman, sole-proprietor, entrepreneur and management
consultant, has managed to assimilate a highly practical and
common-sense approach to addressing change as a constant way
of life in 21st century competitive business. Change Is the
Rule will be among the required reading for my executive leadership
team as we continue to drive for dramatic business growth
and value creation for Texaco in the highly competitive domestic
energy markets."
W. Robert Parkey, Jr.
President
Texaco Natural Gas Inc.
"This book is a must read for anyone trying to manage
the change process. A work of art that tells the reader in
easy to understand language how to manage the process. It
will serve as a desk reference the manager or executive can
and should use fore a successful outcome. In a real life application,
Marathon Ashland Petroleum LLC followed this process in forming
a successful merger of two petroleum companies"
J. Louis Frank
President
Marathon Ashland Petroleum LLC
"Workers throughout most organizations understand, by
now, that change is really the rule. Dutch Holland provides
the clearest, most practical guidance imaginable on integrating
the running of any business with implementing changes necessary
to assure future success. His 'dual perspective' of running
the business while changing it is a simple but powerful and
inspiring model!"
Burt Branstetter
Vice President and General Counsel
Chevron USA Production Company
"Simple ideas often turn out to be winners. Dutch first
introduced his simple winning concept 'Run the Business, Change
the Business' to our organization more than seven years ago.
Managers who understand how to organize and handle these roles
have been the key to successful transformation of our company."
David Birney
President
Solvay Polymers, Inc.
"Dutch Holland brings home the hard realities of change
management and constructs a practical and thorough blueprint
for change formed from successful application with many diverse
clients. The methods described in his book and used by his
form work because they embrace, from first hand experience,
the intricacies of how people effectively work with change
and are boldly led through change."
Alan B. Markert
VP Finance
H. E. Butt Grocery Company
"Dutch is the most down to earth change advocate I have
met in my 35 years of struggling with change. Where else do
you have a University of Texas Ph.D. that will hit you about
the head to get your attention? This book is another example
of his 'get involved, make something happen and go-do' approach
to change. This is not academia, this is the real world!"
Fred Hubbard
Sr. Vice President
Bell Helicopter Textron
"Multiple rapid changes, successfully executed, will
be the key to the 21st century business. Dutch lays it out
- change must be managed. To expect transformation without
good management is a dream. This is a book that must be 'on
the desk' of a successful 21st century CEO"
Major General John S. Parker
Commanding General
USA Medical Research and Material Command
Fort Detrick, MD
