Decade of Change

The book represents a unique blend of a collection of big thinkers weighing in on global changes — including a Nobel Prize winning psychologist, one of the co-creators of the Internet, a former military general known to millions from his leadership in the Gulf Coast, and many others.

Change management used to be one of those abstract concepts relegated to business conferences and academic seminars — a nice-to-know topic for discussion, but hardly vital to success.

Well, could change have become more real, or more relevant, this past decade?

Decade of Change features insights and wisdom into how to manage, and make the most of, change. Vinton Cerf, co-creator of the Internet, peers into the Web’s future. Nobel Prize winner Daniel Kahneman probes the nature of decision making. Lieutenant General Russel Honoré, the Hurricane Katrina hero, offers leadership lessons he applied in that crisis. Visionary executive Ray Anderson makes a powerful business case for environmental sustainability. And a host of other executives and thinkers tackle everything from easing the fear of layoffs to promoting wellbeing in the workplace to building customer engagement amid the post-crash “new normal.”

You’ll hear from some of the best business and organizational minds in these pages. They steered leaders through the various crises of the past decade and helped find a way forward to what we all hope will be a brighter and more prosperous future. Decade of Change is more than a look backward — it is a roadmap for what lies ahead.

Geoffrey Brewer is the editorial director of Gallup Press, which publishes books and the Gallup Management Journal. He is the editor of numerous bestsellers, including the #1 New York Times bestseller How Full Is Your Bucket? and the #1 Wall Street Journal bestseller StrengthsFinder 2.0, which has sold more than 1 million copies. He was previously a contributing writer on management for The New York Times and is a seven-time recipient of the Jesse H. Neal Editorial Achievement Award from American Business Media. Brewer lives in Brooklyn, New York, with his wife, Regan Solmo, and their son, Henry.

Barb Sanford is the managing editor of the Gallup Management Journal and an editor for Gallup Press, where she has worked on the New York Times bestsellers 12: The Elements of Great Managing and How Full Is Your Bucket?, among others. Sanford is actively involved in the International Association of Business Communicators and has served in leadership roles at the chapter and regional levels. She lives in Lincoln, Nebraska, with her husband, Howard, and daughter, Elizabeth.