Stretch for Change: Improve Your Change Fitness And Thrive In Life

by Gustavo Razzetti

Change is unavoidable, and for most of us, it’s hard to deal with. But you can prepare for it. Just as you would stretch your muscles before a game of tennis, you can stretch your mindset so you are ready when change inevitably comes.


"A critical read for any leader to understand the tapestry of our changing times." - Charles Adler, Co-founder, Kickstarter


Discover how to thrive in our unpredictable world. Re-engage with your passions and improve your leadership skills by stretching your mindset and improving your adaptability.


Change is threatening for most of us. The good news is that we can prepare for it. Just as we train our bodies to be fitter, we can train our mindsets and creativity to thrive in change.


Stretch for Change explores a new approach to innovation to solve problems in both your personal and professional lives:
- Being stuck can do more harm than stretching beyond our comfort zone.
- Organizations waste time solving insignificant problems.
- Everyone has the potential to become a changemaker.
- Accelerating and scaling innovation has less to do with process and more with starting a revolution.
- The best way to overcome resistance is by using it in our favor rather than resisting it.


The book challenges traditional change management theories with a down-to-earth and human-centered approach.
In inspiring, easy-to-understand language, it offers a simple framework and many exercises to transform your approach to change.


Author Gustavo Razzetti, a sought-after expert on change leadership, provides a pathway to help readers achieve their dreams and join the world of innovators. Choose change, and free yourself to improve your adaptability and problem-solving skills.

Genres: Psychology

294 pages, Paperback

Published June 30, 2017

About the author

Gustavo Razzetti is the CEO and founder of Fearless Culture, a culture design consultancy that helps teams do the best work of their lives. For more than 20 years, Razzetti has helped leaders from Fortune 500s, startups, nonprofits, and everything in between on every continent but Antarctica.

Gustavo is also the creator of the Culture Design Canvas, a framework used by thousands of teams and organizations across the world to map, assess, and design their culture.

In addition to his consulting work with clients, Gustavo regularly speaks with leaders and teams about culture change, teamwork, and hybrid workplaces. His coaching and tools have helped countless executives and teams develop work environments where people collaborate to accelerate individual and collective performance.

A prolific writer and author of four books on culture change, Gustavo’s insights have been featured in The New York Times, Psychology Today, Forbes, BBC, and Fortune, among others.

Reviews

[Please Pass the Books · Rating 5 out of 5]

Gustavo Razzetti’s Stretch For Change is a book designed to guide those individuals, organizations, and companies who are seeking to revise themselves but might be too discomforted by the idea to really do so. Divided into three sections comprising of eleven chapters (including an inspiring introduction and a review at the end), Stretch For Change provides an answer for virtually every objection, from viewing the word ‘change’ as a verb instead of a noun, to pinpointing the exact ‘cultural neurosis’ an organization would likely fall under. Working hand-in-hand with meaningful stretch exercises—primarily of the mind bending nature, but dabbling in the physical as well—Razzetti’s Stretch For Change offers a no holds barred approach to embracing change and overcoming all that inhibits it.

Down to earth and relatable, Stretch For Change is written in a way that will inspire just about anyone with the desire to see past their perceived limitations. I saw the walls that several companies I’d worked for built up to keep creativity and change out, and caging myself, as a worker bee, in. Additionally, I also saw myself as an occasional ‘Enemy of Innovation’ with the goal, strategy, threat, and weapon of choice. Instead of being defensive to the mirror Razzetti holds up, I found his observations comfortable and natural. Plainspoken and as simple to grasp as if he were conversing with me on a sofa, Razzetti offers both the concept and the tools to make the change that many are desperately seeking, but few are courageous enough to go after.

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[Luis · Rating 5 out of 5]

Stretch for Change is full of keen and well-earned insights and practical suggestions for overcoming fears and anxieties in a whole host of contexts, business and life in general. Although there are many books offering guidance on how to navigate change, I've been pleasantly surprised to find that Razzetti's approach is sensible, clever, humble, honest, and, most importantly, pragmatic. It's clear-headed and self-aware in its diagnosis and prescriptions, which he himself invites readers to challenge and to use only what makes sense to them. I recommend it to anyone interested in digging deeper into the work and play of personal and professional transformation.

[Luciana Cani · Rating 5 out of 5]

Sometimes is easier avoid changes and stay in your comfort zone. This book provides you with interesting approaches and techniques that helps you take the first step to change. If you research about the author's life, you will see this in not just theory: he applies everything you read in the book in his own life.

[Rosa Frei · Rating 5 out of 5]

'Change is the only constant in life' - Heraclitus, Greek philosopher

Being a changemaker is a game of courage!

The invitation of the book 'Stretch for Change' by Gustavo Razzetti is to take ownership of one's life and actions. Instead of avoiding obstacles, turn them into a challenge, an opportunity to learn and grow. Conquer fear and embrace an experimental mindset that explores all aspects of a challenge. Get out of your comfort zone - as often as you can. The author explains how to solve problems, the roots of problems not only the symptoms. Something that many CEO's and politician should become aware of and learn as well.

"When you stretch your mind, you stretch the world around you."

A great, inspirational book about resilience and how to become a stronger self. Wonderful insights into corporate cultures and how to encourage an open minded, experimental mindset at your workplace.

[Moira Dillon · Rating 5 out of 5]

We all resist change one way or another, for changing moves us out of our comfort zone, and deep inside, it triggers a lot of unpleasant feelings that range from fear to anger.

But what if we can train ourselves to embrace change?

What I’ve learned reading this book is how becoming more adaptive, how being able to see change through a different lens and welcoming it both in our personal and professional lives, open-up a whole world of new perspectives and possibilities.

I found the tools and exercises to be very effective and easy to implement. Especially, those related to stretching our mindsets and leading change in our own life.


I definitely recommend it.

[Tara Brabazon · Rating 3 out of 5]

Finally a book with some reasonable engagement with change, transition, work and acceleration. The strategies in this book do not involve drinking water, burning incense or meditation.

I am relieved.

The book offers some forthright strategies to create change, momentum and success. While - as is common in the genre - some of the 'follow your passion' rhetoric is a bit dodgy if you are attempting to find the money to buy groceries, there is no doubt there strong options and pathways are created here for people wanting a pivot point in their professional life.

Recommended.

[Alejandro Esch · Rating 4 out of 5]

Mr. Razzetii, has a great insight on leadership skills as he explains how to welcome new opportunities and change using his unique point of view. I really enjoyed this book.

[Jo · Rating 4 out of 5]

Improve the time and change management in our lives. The author gives good tools easy to use everyday