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$24.95 US
108 pages, 7" x 10"
Available May, 2002
Cultural Shifting
Community Leadership and Change
Al Condeluci

Change and leadership are illusive subjects that have relevance to everyone, especially to those in disbility services. This book looks at change and leadership through the lens of culture and community. It anchors around some of the most accepted theories on change and leadership, but uses conventional wisdom and an anthropological spirit of the streets. Woven with stories and anecdotes, the nature of culture, community, the process of change and leadership and our resistances to the change process are explored. Use this book to address personal change, or to manage an organization needing to change, or if you are looking to lead or change a group or mobilize a constituency.

CONTENTS

WANTING MORE: Continued Segregation • Medical Treatment Approach for People with Disabilities •
Demands and Low Wages of Direct Support Staff • Understanding Cultural Change
CULTURE AND COMMUNITY: Functions and Elements of Community s Relationships •
The Decline of Community
PRINCIPLES OF CULTURAL SHIFTING: The Bridge to Joining a Culture • Four Steps to Cultural Shifting
THE CHALLENGES OF CHANGE: The Need for Change in Human Services • Toward a Change Perspective •
A Definition of Change • The Structure of Change • Generations and Change • The Tipping Point •
Analyzing Change • Resistance to Change • Vision
FRAMEWORK FOR CHANGE:Individual Change Frameworks • Organizational Change Frameworks •
Broad-Based Change
CULTURAL LEADERSHIP: Leadership Profile/Framework/Thinking • Communication and Leadership
STRATEGIES FOR CULTURAL SHIFTING

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"Inclusion is necessary for society to survive. Gently, but firmly, this book makes it very clear that people within society need each other. But this book goes further to make the salient point that the ability of society to survive is linked to the flourishing of communities where each member of society has dignity because they are appreciated. In sum, another name for implementation is really “cultural shifting,” or fixing the damage by doing the hard work of changing the realities of society.
That is really what this book is about: erasing the bad collective memory of wrongful treatment of people with disabilities, and replacing it with a healthy, interdependent framework for community. A new vision of society was written with the legislative pen. Now, the writing is over. Let the process of cultural shifting begin."
– Prof. I.L. Feitshans, JD