Who Rocked the Boat?: A Story about Navigating the Inevitability of Change

By Curtis Bateman

Learn How to Turn Change into Opportunity

“Change is not merely necessary to life—it is life.” –Alvin Toffler

In this FranklinCovey book on responding to change, explore your own experiences with change using a river journey parable as a point-of-reference. Take this voyage and discover timeless principles and timely results from an industry leader who has helped numerous organizations turn disruptive change into individual and collective opportunity.         

Who Rocked the Boat? We all travel along various rivers in life, which means at any moment we can find ourselves navigating their uncertainty—whether a global pandemic, a new boss, a shift in employment, business restructuring, a new role on a team, starting a new course in school, a new business strategy, the birth of a child, divorce, or responding to a setback on a project or personal goal.

Shift happens! Change is going to happen. It’s a fact of life. Understanding your reactions and making good choices could make the difference between capitalizing on an opportunity or resisting and missing an important chance.

The FranklinCovey Change Model. While every change is unique, there is a predictable pattern to change, and understanding this pattern and building the skills to navigate it is often the difference between success and failure. The FranklinCovey Change Model provides the structure necessary to orient, ground, and gain clarity about change. Then, like the ship’s crew in the river journey parable, we can use the model as a map to chart our way forward: making key decisions, adopting new behaviors, and building ideal conditions for innovation. Today, with change coming at us in fast and increasingly disruptive ways, understanding The Change Model is more important than ever.

If books such as Together Is Better by Simon Sinek, The Five Dysfunctions of a Team by Patrick Lencioni, or Who Moved My Cheese? by Spencer Johnson have been valuable, you will want to read Who Rocked the Boat?

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• Language: English
• Publisher: Open Road Integrated Media
• Release date: Nov 15, 2022
• ISBN: 9781684810789

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Reviews for Who Rocked the Boat?

[stefaniegeeks · Rating: 5 out of 5 stars]

A delightfully illustrated fable on leadership through showing the way rather than forcing the way. I especially appreciated the afterword which gave me lots to think about. I am also going to share the fable portion with my little ones as it's written in an all ages format.

[sweetiegherkin · Rating: 3 out of 5 stars]

This compact book is full of quotes and pithy messages about work and leadership. The author introduces it as a "fable" that starts with a playground bully. This is misleading though because that story is told only in the illustrations. The accompanying text is just strung together snippets without a plot or real trajectory of thought. That all being said though, there are definitely pearls of wisdom in here like:- "Leadership is not about being in charge. Leadership is about taking care of those in your charge."- "Our struggles are the short-term steps we must take on our way to long-term success."- "A boss has the title. A leader has the people."- "The true value of a leader is not measured by the work they do. The true value of a leader is measured by the work they inspire others to do."Is any of this really mind blowing? Not really, but it's helpful to have little reminders from time to time to keep us all motivated and on track. As you can see, the sayings are all very short. For some that are more meaningful to the author, he expands on them in supplementary material at the back of the book. Here he says things like:- " ... when obstacles appear in life, the fun is figuring out ways over and around instead of focusing on what's in the way. We can imagine what's over the wall or we can stand there and stare at the wall.""The importance of knowing where we are going, not simply what we are running from or trying to change, is one of those nuances that a poetic little quote can't fully capture. ... The reason we more often rally against something is because it's easier. It's easier to stoke someone's fears, discomfort or sense of injustice because the thing that they fear, that makes them uncomfortable or that they feel is unfair is usually a real thing. Standing for something is often more abstract. Something that may be clear in the minds of the visionaries may seem distant, elusive or just plain impossible to the rest of us. It is the responsibility of the visionary to paint the abstract future as if it were the tangible present. Then we will have something to rally for."It is obvious from certain passages that the author is writing from a business perspective, but I found his observations to be relevant to the nonprofit world as well.The illustrations are indeed lovely, done in a muted palette of black and white with splashes of pinks/reds. They do complement the text with their story of three playground bully victims who choose to change their course. In short, this book isn't one I'd recommend rushing out to buy this moment. But it was a nice short "zen" read that helped center some of my own recent thoughts career-wise.