DefrICtion: Unleashing your Enterprise to Create Value from Change (Fruition)

I just finished reading the 3rd book in this series and I am sure that I will read them all at least twice. Every section has insightful information that can be used to reflect on our day to day work.Though the book is not intended to be a reference book of any sort, it guides you on how to think and evolve.

Great story with deep message that anyone in Corp America can relate to. I will read this again for sure.

Loved the whole series. Quick to read, delivers point well.

In this book, Chris Potts continues his exploration of how to directly increase the value created by enterprises through investment in change, and particularly of the investment in change to enterprise structure.He does this through a fictional drama with many of the same cast of slightly one-dimensional characters ( - in the sense that their lives seem a bit sad - ) from his previous two books. It's a different way to get the message across and on the whole it works very well. It is not just entertaining but also thought provoking, and the insightful advice is rendered easily memorable by recalling which character said what and why.However, the book implies that enterprise executives do some significant re-thinking about the way they organise to create value, and I wonder whether this format does justice to the ideas proposed. For example it does not allow for discussion of any evidence.Neither did I feel that it was explicit that the conclusions drawn are the result of thinking logically from premises, which themselves have been chosen from options. As fiction, I feel that's fine. But to propose that real executives use it in practice one would need to take care to show that there are other ways of thinking about the 'real-world' that would lead to different conclusions, so helping them choose from more than one answer.

But probably warrants no more than a pamphlet, or chapter in a broader book. The use of theatrical dialogue to posit the material as a story rather than a lecture is an interesting technique, but becomes irritating and, at times, patronising.

This fictionalized but highly realistic story achieves the impossible: describing radically new ways to drive enterprise change while keeping it easy to read and understand, avoiding the boring lecture-like display of frameworks and definitions.Chris Potts brings clarity in the description of dysfunctional behaviors in the way most organizations have been managing and governing IT and non-IT change endeavors in the past decades.But it doesn’t stop there: he brings innovative evolution paths to transform corporate structure and culture.This wisdom-packed book will help executive decision makers ignite and nurture significant, long-lasting performance improvements in value creation.But there is more, this book should be a mandatory reading for all people involved in the management or the delivery of change in enterprises. It should raise awareness about executive management considerations and challenges. The most important learning item they should get out of this book is that a change endeavor is not an end in itself; it is the impact on enterprise performance that is the fundamental goal.