In 1994 when I went to OOPSLA, I signed up for a tutorial in Design
Patterns. I liked the ideas but I didn't know how I could do much about getting my company to actually use patterns.
This is a problem we all face as we go to conferences, read articles and books, and talk to all the really cool people at JavaRanch :-)! We see lots of good ideas that would help us in our work, but how can we, the "powerless leaders," have any impact?
That is what the book is all about -- it is full of stories about others who have had success as change agents. They share their secrets in the patterns we have documented.