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Breakthrough!® Everything You Need to Start A Solution Revolution®
ISBN: 0965767795

$ 30.00

by Debbe Kennedy

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Stories and Feedback from the
People Using Breakthrough!® to Make a Difference

The following are unedited feedback received from leaders that are using Breakthrough! You'll find interesting input and stories from managers in corporations, team leaders, management, OD, and executive consultants, community leader, financial investment broker and school board member, account executive ... people just like you working to make a difference in their organizations.

A Financial Investment Broker and School Board Leader

When I read "Future Edge", by Joel Arthur Barker, a month ago, I was amazed... It was an enchanting, exciting, exhilarating book. It was the most exciting book or concept I'd ever read...until I read Breakthrough! this weekend. I could not put it down! I remain fascinated by your solution-generating approach. My heartiest congratulations.

As a member of an entrepreneurial firm employing 800+ people, I see a myriad of opportunities to benefit from the clarity of your thought. As a member of a parish school board educating over 600 children, I see limitless chances to help them reach their potential.

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As an Organizational Development Consultant, specializing in building quality into organizations, I enjoyed reading Breakthrough! I found that it was easy to integrate your problem-solving strategies into a total system's approach to the process of organizational change. I have thoroughly integrated Breakthrough! as one of my consulting tools, to use in working with teams and organizations that are facing difficult problems. The value of Breakthrough! is the ease of its adaptions for use with basic models of organizational change.

An unknown author said, "Give a man a fish and you feed him for a day; teach a man to fish and you feed him for a lifetime." Breakthrough! provides an organization with tools to "fish" for real solutions. ... I carry it in my briefcase all of the time!

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This past week, during our training for our new "community leaders" around the world, we saw them struggle with their the concept of their new roles. We searched for a way to help them reflect on their experiences and learn from each others perspectives. The perfect reflection question seemed elusive to us as leaders of this session. We hemmed and hawed and talked it seemed all evening about many things. We decided to sleep on it. When I awoke the next morning, I wasn't clearer on what to ask or how to help "community leaders" who I would soon face again...and I was now feeling the pressure of the moment. I pulled out my Breakthrough cards (I don't leave home with them...) and pulled off the top card, it had a quote from Lao-Tzu quote about " ... they will say, we did this ourselves" was the essence of it. I knew it was the right thing... the Breakthrough! we needed. When our session started, I helped our "community leaders" envision themselves in the future, a year from now and asked them to reflect on what the their "customers" in the organization will say that they have achieved during the year. It worked! It was magical. It was a Breakthrough! for everyone!

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The value of Breakthrough!® for leaders, teams, and organizations is ...

Breakthrough! allows you to create a safe environment for teams and organizations to explore the core issues and challenges that are standing in the way of their success --- and it allows everyone at all levels of the organization to become directly involved in changing things for the better.

...Breakthrough! is a powerful, flexible and amazing simple tool. Where ever you are in your own level of experience as a leader of change --- Breakthrough! supports you and your goals. The cards immediately make things happen, so the question of "How do you use Breakthrough!" is not difficult to answer ...you use it how YOU need to use it. No right, no wrong...just a continually unfolding journey. It is empowering.

The value I see for Breakthrough!® in my own work is ...

- Direct help in planning meetings, discussions, dealing with obstacles

- Professional, portable tool --- I often don't have the time to prepare for a meeting the way that I want to...to looked polished and poised. All the right ideas are usually in my head, but getting the point across usually needs the aid of some form of media (pictures, flip charts, etc. ) Breakthrough is my new meeting assistant --- even if the cards or related pages from the book are just for my own use --- they become guides and helpful reminders to ensure that I cover all the points I want to cover.

- A way to get to the root causes and deal with them without judgment or blame

- Help when I need ideas, what ifs or other creative solutions for how to address a particular issue.

- A reality check! The cross-reference section associated with each category removes my doubt (Did I forget something/Overlook an important issue?

- Powerful tool for my own growth and development. Breakthrough helps increase your own awareness and insight --- I plan to use it regularly to continue growing my personal skill set in the areas of transformation, group dynamics, leadership and planning.

The words I would use to describe Breakthrough! overall are...

- A powerful catalyst for unlocking people's talents and perspectives

- A trusted friend

- My new mentor in a box!

- Professional and thoughtfully laid out

- A real tool for business today

- A tool that keeps me in control of the process. Breakthrough doesn't take center stage --- it supports and bolster the people and the processes.

Other comments:

Thank you for asking me these questions. I didn't realize how much I have already gotten out of Breakthrough!

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I've traveled with Breakthrough! around the world. It has helped me in ways I didn't expect. On a recent trip to Europe, Breakthrough! had an unexpected influence that I thought was worth passing along.

I was preparing the room for a group of leaders from around the world. As I was about to create a "welcome" sign and was wishing I could write welcome in a different languages. When I reached in my bag to get a felt pen, I saw my Breakthrough! card deck. Card 27 was on top with "welcome" written in 9 different languages. Since, I've made a practice of looking through the cards ... I've used the quotes to set up a session ... reinforce a point, or inspire a participant.

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USER FEEDBACK from a Marketing Manager

The value of Breakthrough!® for leaders, teams, and organizations is...

There seems so far to be no limit on the ways in which I can use Breakthrough! to help my organization. It opened our minds to see what we later realized was there all the time: new ways to move ahead, the most important basic barriers to break, and innovative ways to see our successes.

For a leader, this is a simple tool for organizing your own --- or your team's --- thoughts and ACTION.

The value I see for Breakthrough!® in my own work is...

(1) Tapping into the wealth of experience and pragmatic approach that the author, Debbe Kennedy, takes to move far beyond brainstorming to solve problems.

(2) Tapping into MY TEAM'S experience using the structure provided as a starting point allowed us to get to a solution in minutes, not days.

The words I would use to describe Breakthrough!® overall are...

Pragmatic. Accelerating. Thoughtful. Professional. FUN! A bargain.

Other comments:

This tool is a gem! Right down to all of those great graphic icons on each card that reminded us of EXACTLY how we felt about the needs we had.

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USER FEEDBACK from a Executive Management Consultant

"...BREAKthrough lives up to it's title. ... creative, practical, passionate, and engaging. I believe you've accomplished your objective of increasing the speed and efficiency of the problem-solving process by providing easy-to-use tools. I intend to use the book and cards in one of my consulting and volunteer projects soon."

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USER FEEDBACK from a Marketing Account Executive

I am halfway through the book and have found that if the rest of it is like the beginning, I will resolve more issues this year alone with my accounts than I have been able to address in the past 10 years.

At the last moment before leaving on a trip to visit one of our locations in the midst of a organizational transformation, I picked up my Breakthrough! cards and took them on the plane with me hoping to find a quote I could use in my message the next day. On the plane, I enjoyed the Breakthrough! cards ... I found the quote I needed and also used the cards to explore the issues I imagined my manager was facing ... then went on to explore what issues I imagined his team felt they were facing. What a great tool for the plane!

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