Product Description

(Inner) FITness espouses the theory that Personal Integrity can be achieved by maintaining coherent and well-formed Constancies, the internal criteria of Awareness, Fearlessness, Self-Responsibility, Balance and Morality/Ethics. Dependent on these is one's behavioural flexibility, the ability to behave appropriately in different situations. FITness can be applied to both people and organizations which take a FIT approach to staff development and training. FITness in either case will give a competitive edge and a greater chance of success.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #413753 in Books
• Published on: 2000-09-21
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 175 pages

Customer Reviews

Great book for personal and organisational change
A book that creeps up on you. The FIT theory seems simple, but the more you think about it the more you realise how powerful it is and how all-embracing it is.

The book is well written and I especially liked the first chapter which is a series of statements of real power.

I think the FIT framework is applicable to all areas of life be it work, relationships, money, fitness, dieting, drinking too much and everything. That makes it sound less powerful and predictive than it is. I did my FIT Profile and was at first annoyed because I got a low score in several areas. I then used some of the EXERcises and realised some important things.

The book really has an important message about companies that try to make changes: it shows why most of these don't work and also why they cannot in the long term. FIT has a solution that organisations should listen too, but I doubt that they will. But if they did do change management according to the FIT pillars they would do so much better.

A great book, really powerful ideas. But simple too.

Insightful, worrying and important
The book is really good but leaves some uncomfortable messages with you. These need to be taken seriously, although the book does imply that people do not do what they know is sensible. FIT offers them a chance and it also offers organisations some key drivers they need to consider. Organisations are not making the most of the people they pay lots of money to employ and they don't know how to release the potential they have. If they took the FIT theory seriously they would be given some answers.

What is impressive about the book, though, is that it has many much more deeper insights into people and the theories that psychologists and others have offered in the past. For Fletcher, these theories are past their sell-by-date and do not have anything like the solutions they appear to suggest. Their answers are charades and mirages, whereas the FIT ones really promise to work in where they need to.

I rate this book highly. Why doesn't it appear in the front windows of all the major bookstores... Buy it and value what it says. Make sure you intervene! I give it 6 stars at least.

Wow! FIT is a movement of the future!
A guy from the US recommended this to me. He had said that this book contained some real insights to personal and organisational issues that went much further than many previous writers, but that it all seemed so simple. When you think about what Fletcher has written you can see that it really hums together in a profound way, yet is a very simple framework. FIT is a movement of the future and I hope I can hear the Professor speak sometime. The book is well written and the chapters make sensible contributions to the main theme. However, the real contribution of the book is the FIT framework which is laid down in an intersting way in the 1st chapter. I have read many book on personal development as well as things like Ouspensky and that category of books, but this one has it for me. A real gem. Gimme more The Professor!