Preface
Acknowledgments
PART ONE: Pulling Apart
PART TWO: Gaining Understanding
PART THREE: Pulling Together
PART FOUR: Learning to Understand
The Keys
Application of The Keys
Get It! Continuum
Reflection and Dialogue Questions
One thing you can say about Leslie Yerkes is that she gets it.
Another thing you can say is that she knows how to make sure
thatyou get it. In her job as an organizational development/ change
management consultant, Leslie has helped thousands to get it and to
learn how to make sure that those
around them get it, too. A graduate of Wittenberg University and
Case Western Reserve University, Leslie is the founder of Catalyst
Consulting Group, Inc. in Cleveland, Ohio. She has taught at John
Carroll University, Baldwin Wallace
College, and is on the faculty at the Weatherhead Dively Center for
Executive Education.
For six months, Randy didn't get the concept of this book. But
Leslie continued in a gentle, non-threatening
way until one day, voila, he got it! Randy attended Northwestern
University and has a degree in television producing and directing
from Milwaukee Area Technical College. He spent more than twenty
years in broadcast television, garnering nearly a dozen Emmys and a
CEN Award. He spent seven years with PM Magazine in Cleveland as
producer, director, and executive producer. In 1985, Martin changed
careers and started the award-winning martin DESIGN, a
marketing/advertising firm that "Reframes people's thoughts and
makes them powerful, profitable, and enlightening." His clients
have included- Stop-n-Shop Supermarkets, Tony Roma's, Focus Four,
The Cleveland Growth Association, The Cleveland Ballet, Reflections
Interior Design, and Catalyst Consulting Group.
Ben Dewey is a freelance illustrator and graduate of The Cleveland
Institute of Art (CIA). He is the recipient of CIA's Mary C. Page
Traveling Schol- arship (for the top painting student of the year)
and the Sue Wall Painting Scholarship. His Bachelor of Fine Arts
project on legendary blues guitarist Roscoe Porter earned him a
spot in the Top Twenty Final Presentation, a prestigious evaluation
and award. Dewey has been drawing since child-
hood and playing electric and slide guitar since the age of
thirteen. He has created band performance posters for the tours of
several national recording artists and currently plays guitar with
several groups in the Cleveland area while pursing a career in the
comics industry.
He is the author of the soon-to-be-released single, "Moonshine
Boys."
“A brilliant topic—with important implications for how we all work
and live together. Read it and reap the benefits!”
—BJ Gallagher, coauthor of A Peacock in the Land of Penguins and
Who Are “They” Anyway?
“Replacing force and frustration with humility, openness, and
responsibility is key to building teamwork in today’s business
world. They Just Don’t Get It! illuminates a common problem with
powerful insight.”
—William Brake, V.P. & General Manager, International Steel Group,
Inc.
"They Just Don't Get It! is a fun, yet powerful reminder that
personal humility inhabits the soul of great leadership, and that
practicing humility begins by abandoning presumption and listening
hard.”
—Bryan W. Sickbert, Executive Director, Council for Health and
Human Service Ministries
"This clever book offers a few profound points worth building into
your life. You will get it when you finish reading this book."
—Geoff Bellman, author of Getting Things Done When You Are Not in
Charge
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