Reviews
What are people saying about UNSTUCK? We’ve compiled a list of the initial reviews below. If you have read UNSTUCK, we invite you to send us your thoughts and feedback on the book. Please visit our contact page and select submit a book review.
UNSTUCK takes all that's tough about leading change, breaks it down, and serves it up in a way that makes you want to take action. Right now.
—Paul Pressler, CEO, Gap Inc.
A wonderfully engaging and playful look at leading change. Packed with practical guidance on how to restore momentum to your teams and organization. Hard to put down!
—Jay Conger, author of Winning 'Em Over
A new manifesto from two of our most original, most amazing thinkers (and more important, practitioners). You can and must get unstuck. Right now.
—Seth Godin, author of Purple Cow and Free Prize Inside
However 'stuck' or 'unstuck' you might feel at any given moment, participating in Keith and Sandra's insightful and creative book is like having your own professional but personal breakfast club. In just a few minutes I got more than enough good ideas to last a long time.
—David Allen, author of Getting Things Done and Ready for Anything
If you are a leader on the up-escalator but lack a mentor who can help you navigate the dangers of corporate life, UNSTUCK will provide witty and useful advice. Ideas disguised in different media jump at you from many angles, and if you take the time to reflect on them, you emerge wiser and more energized.
—Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi, Professor, Peter F. Drucker School of Management, and author of Flow and Good Business
Part action manual, part tool, part dojo, UNSTUCK is unfailingly inventive when it comes to tackling the toughest challenges of making strategy, organizing work, and leading people. If you're stuck—and you will be, if you aim to do great work— UNSTUCK is a fresh, fun, and serious-minded guide to moving forward.
—Polly LaBarre, contributing writer, Fast Company
While we know the attributes of a good team and good direction, we surprise ourselves with how such smart and motivated people can allow dysfunction to creep into our progress. Eureka! Keith and Sandra reveal our vulnerabilities by defining imbalances in our ambitions, rather than faults in our character.
—Ric Grefé, executive director, AIGA
UNSTUCK really walks its talk. It's a workbook, storybook, textbook, and conversation that gives the reader a holistic view into the issues facing business today. The gems of information, questions, and case studies throughout are take-aways that make you think in new ways.
—Ivy Ross, founder of Project Platypus at Mattel Inc.
Reinventing an institution with as important a legacy as PBS required strategic clarity matched with creativity—and that’s just what Stone Yamashita Partners brought to the process. UNSTUCK captures their unique approach that helped us get unstuck from the past and focused on the future.
—Pat Mitchell, CEO, PBS
There is not much point in steering a car that is stuck. You have to get moving. UNSTUCK is roadside assistance for leaders—a tool for turning information into action.
—Gary VanSpronsen, Senior Vice President of Business Development, Herman Miller