From Chaos to Coherence (The Power to Change Performance) [Paperback]

Bruce Cryer (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: August 1, 2000 | ISBN-10: 1879052466 | ISBN-13: 978-1879052468

A gutsy, sincere, scientifically-based business case for bringing more heart into organizations. Presents HeartMath's impeccable biomedical research and highly practical tools for humanizing business, building people and organizations that respond gracefully to change, crisis and challenge. Clients such as Motorola, Hewlett Packard, Canadian Imperial Bank of Canada, Nortel, Cisco Systems, Lucent, BP and Royal Dutch Shell are empowering their talented workforce with these tools. Well-documented examples and organizational case studies illustrate impressive changes.

The book introduces Inner Quality Management(r) (IQM), which has four dynamics: Internal Self-Management, Coherent Communication, Boosting Organizational Climate and Strategic Processes of Renewal.

Editorial Reviews

Review

“HeartMath takes the mystery out of boosting organizational performance. Expect to elevate not only your business but your own personal existence as well.” -- Debbie Reichenbach, Manager, Corporate Learning and Development, Tellabs

“If there is hope for a real transformation from the information age to the knowledge age... the concepts presented here are central to it.” -- Claudia Welss, Director, Berkeley Center for Executive Development, Haas School of Business, University of California, Berkeley

“Provides a wonderful set of antidotes for anyone who lives at cyber-speed!” -- Patricia B. Seybold, CEO, the Patricia Seybold Group and Author, Customers.com: How to Create a Profitable Business Strategy for the Internet & Beyond

“Provocative and highly practical approach at the heart of business and personal success in the next millennium. A must-read.” — -- Ken Blanchard, co-author, The One Minute Manager and Gung Ho!

“great commentary on..how to motivate people as well as earn their commitment and trust while driving to great results.” -- Zur Feldman, Executive Vice President, Packard Bell NEC, Inc.

Product Details

• Paperback: 309 pages
• Publisher: Heartmath Llc (August 1, 2000)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1879052466
• ISBN-13: 978-1879052468
• Product Dimensions: 8.3 x 5.5 x 1.1 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.2 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (8 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #123,369 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

10 of 12 people found the following review helpful

5.0 out of 5 stars An important book February 21, 2001

By Dale S. Ironson

This is an important book. At some level we all know there must be a better way to be in the world. Quite simply this book, and the simple but powerful tools it provides, can help you to transform the quality of your life. It has for me.

The Freeze Frame tool, and its associated variants, can be applied quickly and easily in a wide variety of situations to improve one's performance, productivity and personal satisfaction. These tools are based on the simple fact that it takes only a minute to shift your focus and change your perceptions. From Chaos to Coherence invites you to see for yourself what such a shift in focus and perception can mean in terms of your ability to deal with stress effectively, enhance your creativity or improve your leadership abilities.

Whether you are an employee trying to cope with change and an increasingly demanding work environment, a middle manager who is trying to balance many conflicting forces, or an executive who is seeking to inspire excellent performance this book provides many valuable insights and practical, powerful tools. What's more these approaches have been tested and proven to be effective through careful research in many Fortune 500 companies, government agencies as well as many private businesses.

This is an important book because it presents a simple technique that is so fundamental and sound that I have trouble understanding why everyone isn't already using this approach.

The Freeze-Frame methodology is sure to provide a significant competitive advantage for those corporate leaders and managers who are interested in creating healthier and more productive environments in the information/internet age. God knows we need such approaches to help us keep pace with the demands and changes of our times.

I highly recommend this book, and the HeartMath tools and approach. Bruce, Doc and the staff at the Institute of HeartMath have done a great job in developing and bringing these approaches into the corporate arena. It is now up to us to use them to determine the fruits they can bear in our own lives. I encourage you to buy this book and try these tools and see for yourself what they can do to increase the quality of your life and the performance of you, your team, and your organization.

5 of 6 people found the following review helpful

5.0 out of 5 stars Practical and immediately useful January 31, 2001

By DAN ST.PETER--Retired Partner Arthur Andersen

This book is a practical guide to engaging the heart in business.It is backed by leading edge , sophisticated medical research yet it is straight forward and easy to understand.It introduces some quick , simple tools and techniques that ,when incorporated into your daily routine,yields incredible results.

7 of 9 people found the following review helpful

5.0 out of 5 stars Microsoft of Emotional Coherence May 1, 2001

By George Zee

I have been recommending the first edition to friends in the field of management. The authors are admirable in their willingness to make a fair amount of revisions and expand on their book in less than than 2 years. Such is the speed of change! This is a very satisfying and useful book. It is interesting and easy to follow. Given many good reviews, including those for the first edition, I'll refrain from adding more praise or give any summary ideas. As Scott Shuster, the Founding Director of Business Week, has said well in the Foreword: "There is no limit to the potential of HeartMath because at root it is a simple, physical act: a mental formation, a thought with physical effects. It is neither philosophy, faith, nor belief. The essentially physical character of the practice enables its easy application across all the barriers that customarily divide humanity.... Within this potential universality lies HeartMath's immense promise: If everybody did this, what a wonderful world." It won't be surprising if HeartMath becomes as widely known and used as the Microsoft of the world of emotional coherence.