Shaping the Future: A Dynamic Process for Creating and Achievingyour Company's Strategic Vision
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The true heroes of transformation within organizations are not just CEOs, but managers who create energy, gain alignment, and solidify the will within the company to turn the strategic vision into reality. Shaping the Future provides how-to guidance — plus examples based on interviews with executives from companies like Boeing, Microsoft, Rockwell-Collins, and Harley-Davidson — to help businesses create a strong future.
Rethinking many classic assumptions about change, Shaping the Future emphasizes the importance of making a single, critical change — the strategic imperative — rather than many smaller ones. The book presents a practical and unique Transformational Model, consisting of five key steps necessary to overcome resistance and effect large-scale change within an organization.
Demonstrating an exciting new approach to an ever-more critical challenge, Shaping the Future provides thoughtful and tested guidance for true change leaders.
Author Biography: William P. Belgard (Beaverton, OR) is founder and CEO of the Belgard Group, a consulting firm specializing in change management, leadership development, and self-directed work teams. Steven R. Rayner (Freeland, WA) is founder of the consulting and training firm Rayner & Associates and a noted authority on high-performance work systems. Belgard and Rayner are cofounders of the American Center for Strategic Transformation and coauthors of the best-selling Tips for Teams.
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This is a book that should be read by anybody looking to lead achange initiative.
Table of Contents:
| Acknowledgments | ||
| Introduction | 1 | |
| Pt. I | Managing in an era of profound change | 11 |
| Ch. 1 | The megadigm : confronting the six shifts of change | 13 |
| Ch. 2 | A destiny of choice : taking steps that matter | 47 |
| Pt. II | Shaping the future you choose | 79 |
| Ch. 3 | The Henry response : discovering the leader within | 81 |
| Ch. 4 | The simple view : establishing the bridge to the future | 109 |
| Ch. 5 | Acts of counterresistance : unleashing a change epidemic | 135 |
| Ch. 6 | Breakthrough in action : destroying the box of complacency | 171 |
| Ch. 7 | A fellowship of change agents : building capability for the long haul | 195 |
| Afterword | 207 | |
| Index | 217 |
Interesting book: Healthy Helpings or Vegan
Business Strategy in a Semiglobal Economy
Author: Panos Mourdoukoutas
This breakout text identifies the existence of a semiglobal economy in which international business must compete both in highly globalized and in highly localized markets at the same time, which challenges a number of popular notions in international business strategy. Are the conventional models of business organization and the competitive strategies derived from them still relevant? A number of companies have been organized as semiglobal corporations, which differ from the transnational corporation and matrix corporation featured in the international business literature. A semiglobal corporation organizes its operations according to geographical regions, products or contribution to the parent company's performance.
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