Change Is Everybody's Business challenges readers to realize the power they have to make things happen-to support, stymie, or redirect change. Pat McLagan draws on her thirty years of experience consulting on change projects worldwide to outline the beliefs, character traits, and actions that will enable anyone to welcome change and take advantage of it rather than fear and resist it. Taking a conversational approach to a serious subject, she uses...

Real time strategic change is a way of redesigning how organizations change-a mindset and accompanying methodology-that ensures that: Change occurs at a fast pace and in real time throughout an organization, change occurs simultaneously within the whole organization, buy-in, commitment to, and ownership of a change effort is a natural by-product of involving people in the process of change, people feel responsible for the ultimate success of the organization's...

In The Art of the Turnaround, Mike Dunlop shares his proven 10-step method for turning around companies in deep financial distress, which he has used to restore some 34 companies to financial health and profitability.Infused with Dunlop' s down-to-earth humour and deep understanding of how the people in companies actually work, especially at a time of crisis, The Art of the Turnaround offers CEOs of troubled companies, and leaders who are buying distressed...

En 1997 se publicó la primera versión de Mayonesa, en la que relataba la batalla competitiva entre tres empresas por la generación de rentabilidad y valor económico en el mercado de las mayonesas. Las tres empresas eran inventadas. Las marcas eran inventadas. Pero la metodología de estrategia y desarrollo competitivo era real. La que empleamos en cientos de empresas de casi todos los sectores económicos. Por primera vez, mostramos sin secretos...

The must-read summary of Mark Thompson and Brian Tracy's book: "Now, Build a Great Business!: 7 Ways to Maximize Your Profit in Any Market". This complete summary of the ideas from Mark Thompson and Brian Tracy's book "Now, Build a Great Business!" shows that now is the perfect time to start building a great business that will rise to the top of its industry. Why? Because companies that are forged during times of upheaval, intense competition and...

Strategy to Reality brings together a vast number of perspectives and experiences, offering business leaders the straight talk necessary to clarify, simplify, and humanize business architecture with Whynde Kuehn's practical and actionable approach. Whynde Kuehn's vision can be summed up in one word: big. She loves climbing mountains-physical and metaphorical-and her most successful summit can be found in Business Architecture, an aspect of business...

Get to the Heart of Building Productive Project Teams!Companies that embrace the power of collaboration realize that the best way to solve complex problems is to build cohesive teams made up of members with different skills and expertise. Getting teams to work productively is at the heart of project management. Developing the structure for teams to work dynamically at a high level of efficiency and effectiveness is at the heart of this book.The author...

It's no secret that technology is moving faster than ever, but current business/IT strategies are not working. To survive the next wave of transformation, the relationship between businesses and technology must evolve. In The Flywheel Effect, David Anderson enables leaders to create an adaptive organization built upon embracing strategic thinking, team focus, and reduced time to value to drive business results. The Flywheel Effect is a technique...

The must-read summary of Obed Shenkar's book: "Copycats: How Smart Companies Use Imitation to Gain a Strategic Edge". This complete summary of the ideas from Obed Shenkar's book "Copycats" banishes the myth that innovation is the only way to gain success. According to Shenkar, imitation is the key and is at the heart of the biggest businesses in the world. In his book, the author explains how companies should approach imitation in a systematic and...

Why are some organizations more innovative than others? How can we tap into, empower, and leverage the natural innovation within our organizations that is so vital to our future success? Now more than ever, companies and institutions of all types and sizes are determined to create more innovative organizations. In study after study, leaders say that fostering innovation and the need for transformational change are among their top priorities. But they...