Examines the results of the author's analysis of the histories of twenty-eight companies and identifies what qualities produce a superior organization.

Are you falling behind your competitors? Are you too slow getting your products to market? Are your overheads too high? These are just some of the challenges that companies face. However, initiating successful change strategies is far from easy. 70% of all change programmes fail. This book shows how you can make sure that when change happens (and it frequently does) your company is ready for it. Shareholders want to see change take effect immediately,...

Change is inevitable, and how we handle it determines a great deal of our success in life. Fortunately, “10 Steps to Successful Change Management” can help you understand change and take proactive steps toward dealing with it. With this handy go-to resource as your guide, you can understand and evaluate change, and apply practical tools that will help you not only cope with the inevitable but benefit from it. Do you look forward to change, or...

In response to the bestselling business fable Who Moved My Cheese?, Malhotra tells a story about three unique and adventurous mice--Max, Big, and Zed--who refuse to accept their reality as given. As their lives unfold and intersect, we discover that instead of blindly chasing after the cheese, each of us has the ability to escape the maze or reconfigure it to our liking.--From p. [2] of jacket.

Most company's change initiatives fail. Yours don't have to. If you read (or listen to) nothing else on change management, listen to these ten articles (featuring "Leading Change," by John P. Kotter). We've combed through hundreds of Harvard Business Review articles and selected the most important ones to help you spearhead change in your organization. HBR's 10 Must Reads on Change Management will inspire you to: lead change through eight critical...

Contextually effective leadership comprises three essential tasks -- drawing the map, establishing the mindset, and communicating the message -- that drive desired change. Each task will vary according to the type of change that the leader seeks to achieve. The authors describe three main tasks (map, mindset, and message) that are key to leaders' contextual effectiveness and illustrate how the objective of those tasks varies according to the type...

Organizational change efforts often fail because they focus on top-down methods that rely on coercion, rewards, or positional authority. Well-meaning leaders talk about driving change, as though employees are cattle or cars. At best, this results in compliance--not engagement or commitment. And at worst it simply doesn't work. Drawing from her experience working with some of today's most successful companies, Esther Derby argues for what she calls...