Make Change Work: Staying Nimble, Relevant, and Engaged in a World of Constant Change
Author(s): Randy Pennington (Author)
Publisher: Wiley
Publication Date: 28 Jun. 2013
Edition: 1st
Language: English
Print length: 192 pages
ISBN-10: 9781118617465
ISBN-13: 9781118617465
Book Description
Remain competitive, inspire innovation, and ensure success
Constantly adapting, improving, and changing is more important than ever for companies to remain competitive in today’s marketplace. Make Change Work presents real solutions to thriving in a world of constant change. This book educates managers and leaders on how to lead change, with strategies for creating urgency, building support, and ensuring successful change. Get the guidance you need to be bold in the face of change, and learn how to make your company faster, better, cheaper, and friendlier―by simply listening to your customers
Advises leaders on how to design and implement a strategy that allows you to successfully lead change and deliver meaningful business results
Author Randy Pennington is a 20-year business performance veteran, author, and expert in helping organizations build a culture focused on results
Learn how to establish a clear and purposeful goal, inspire a culture relentlessly focused on customers, and create an environment where your talented team wants to Make Change Work.
Editorial Reviews
From the Inside Flap
What would happen if you, your team, and your entire organization were constantly focused on adapting, changing, and improving your business? Imagine the results that a nimble and engaged organization could achieve and how that will help you stay relevant in a competitive marketplace.
Make Change Work presents real ideas for thriving in a world of constant change. This isn’t just another book that tells you change is coming, so get ready. It is a field guide to help you design and implement a strategy for leading change and delivering meaningful business results. You will learn:
How to rate your organization on a scale of Dodos to Coyotes
Why change fails and what good change looks like in today’s organizations
How to be bold in the face of change
How to make your company faster, better, cheaper, and friendlier by simply listening to your customers
How to take the uncertainty out of the change process for your employees
Six leadership strategies for creating urgency, building support, and ensuring successful change
The specific challenges that occur when change isn’t a choice (such as a downsizing or merger)
How to lead by example and not by decree
The future of change
Your employees want you to lead them through change and not just shuffle them around on a chessboard. They want to make change work, but in order for them to do that, you need to show your own adaptability, resolve, and resilience. This book will help you establish a clear and purposeful goal, inspire a culture relentlessly focused on customers, and create an environment where your talented team wants to Make Change Work.
From the Back Cover
What would happen if you, your team, and your entire organization were constantly focused on adapting, changing, and improving your business? Imagine the results that a nimble and engaged organization could achieve and how that will help you stay relevant in a competitive marketplace.
Make Change Work??presents real ideas for thriving in a world of constant change. This isn’t just another book that tells you change is coming, so get ready. It is a field guide to help you design and implement a strategy for leading change and delivering meaningful business results. You will learn:
How to rate your organization on a scale of Dodos to Coyotes
Why change fails and what good change looks like in today’s organizations
How to be bold in the face of change
How to make your company faster, better, cheaper, and friendlier by simply listening to your customers
How to take the uncertainty out of the change process for your employees
Six leadership strategies for creating urgency, building support, and ensuring successful change
The specific challenges that occur when change isn’t a choice (such as a downsizing or merger)
How to lead by example and not by decree
The future of change
Your employees want you to lead them through change and not just shuffle them around on a chessboard. They want to make change work, but in order for them to do that, you need to show your own adaptability, resolve, and resilience. This book will help you establish a clear and purposeful goal, inspire a culture relentlessly focused on customers, and create an environment where your talented team wants to Make Change Work.
About the Author
RANDY PENNINGTON is a business performance veteran, author, and expert in helping organizations build a culture focused on results. His client list includes leading organizations in business, nonprofits, and government. His ideas and comments have appeared in??the New York Times, Entrepreneur, Executive Excellence,??and numerous professional and trade journals, and on CNN, Fox News, the BBC, and ABC radio. He is the author of Results Rule!.
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