Big Ideas to Big Results : Remake and Recharge Your Company, Fast
, by Kanazawa, Michael T.; Miles, Robert H.- ISBN: 9780132344784 | 0132344785
- Cover: Hardcover
- Copyright: 2/11/2008
Michael T. Kanazawa, chief executive officer of Dissero Partners, is a business advisor, author, and speaker. Michael serves as a business advisor to executives on the topics of corporate transformation, strategy, business execution, and leadership. Previously, he built the technology and innovation practice at a premier consulting firm that spun off from the Boston Consulting Group. With a blend of operating experience at Fortune 500 companies and collaboration on the development of the Accelerated Corporate Transformation (ACT) process, he brings a practical approach to driving breakthrough growth to his clients. He has worked with organizations including Silicon Valley start-ups, private equity investors and global corporations, such as AT&T, Anadigics, Intel, PG&E, Schlumberger, Symantec, and Verizon.
Robert H. Miles, Ph.D., chairman of Dissero Partners, is a thought and practice leader in the fields of corporate transformation and executive leadership. He also serves as chairman of Galloway Consulting and president of Corporate Transformation Resources. Miles was a faculty member at the Yale School of Management and later at Harvard Business School, where he chaired the innovative program for CEOs, division presidents, and their teams that generated the initial insights for the ACT methodology. He has authored several books on his intensive support of corporate transformations at over twenty-five companies, including Corporate Comeback and Leading Corporate Transformation.
A Better Way | p. 1 |
The Sugar High | p. 3 |
Get Your ACT Together | p. 6 |
Make Transformation a Simple Routine | p. 9 |
Endnotes | p. 11 |
Breaking Through Gridlock | p. 13 |
Gridlock! The Task Overload Epidemic | p. 13 |
Where Did All of This Clutter Come From? | p. 14 |
The New Definition of Big Box Retail | p. 15 |
Task Overload Undermines Accountability | p. 16 |
One Company-Not Many | p. 18 |
Busting Through Gridlock: Getting Started | p. 19 |
The Leader's Challenge: Less Is More | p. 20 |
Fighting Fires Versus Fire Prevention | p. 23 |
Endnotes | p. 24 |
Creating Safe Passage | p. 25 |
Safe Passage-A Clear Transformation Process | p. 25 |
The ACT Process Basics: Powerfully Simple | p. 28 |
This Is Not a New Religion, Just a Better Way of Managing the Business | p. 30 |
Endnotes | p. 32 |
Confronting Today's Reality | p. 33 |
The Emperor's Ugly Clothes | p. 35 |
Dialogue Versus Discussion | p. 36 |
Generating Dialogue as a Leader | p. 37 |
Priming the Pump | p. 39 |
Canary in a Coal Mine | p. 41 |
On the Outside Looking In | p. 44 |
Talk with Customers and Noncustomers | p. 47 |
You Are Here: Map the Market | p. 48 |
Confronting Reality Work Session | p. 52 |
Endnotes | p. 54 |
Sharpening the Strategy Arrow | p. 55 |
A One-Page View of the Future | p. 56 |
Creating a Strategic Vision | p. 60 |
Business Success Modeling | p. 63 |
Due Diligence on Yourself | p. 65 |
Endnotes | p. 71 |
Absolute Alignment | p. 73 |
Translation to Three Corporate Initiatives | p. 74 |
Have You Lost Your Marbles? | p. 76 |
What NOT to Do | p. 78 |
Zombie Projects | p. 78 |
Restack the Whole | p. 80 |
Individual Commitments to Action | p. 83 |
Alignment of Commitments-Reducing Silos | p. 84 |
Alignment of Values | p. 87 |
Don't Try to Replicate the Scout Oath | p. 87 |
Put Your Money Where Your Mouth Is | p. 89 |
The Bottom Line on Alignment | p. 90 |
Endnotes | p. 93 |
Rapidly Engaging the Full Organization | p. 95 |
It's All about the Results | p. 96 |
Quantum Jumps | p. 98 |
"Back in Black" Friday | p. 99 |
Employee Engagement Is Not Barbeque | p. 100 |
High-Engagement | p. 101 |
Critical Importance of Dialogue | p. 101 |
Hear It from My Boss | p. 102 |
Unbounded, But Grounded in Reality | p. 102 |
Putting It All Together | p. 104 |
Reaching Scale and Speed | p. 109 |
Lighting 1,000 Fires Only Gets You Burned | p. 110 |
Endnotes | p. 112 |
Productive Speed | p. 113 |
Get the Train Moving, Now | p. 113 |
The Benefits of Productive Speed | p. 116 |
All Aboard at Internet Speed | p. 118 |
Designing the Process for Speed | p. 121 |
The No-Slack Launch | p. 123 |
Quick Starts | p. 127 |
How Do You Keep Time? | p. 131 |
Speed as a Leadership Discipline | p. 133 |
Endnotes | p. 134 |
Creating Leadership Power at All Levels | p. 135 |
The Power Curve | p. 136 |
The Under-Powered Organization | p. 137 |
Shifting Up the Power Curve | p. 137 |
Executive Management | p. 138 |
This Is Your Day Job | p. 139 |
Everyone Takes a Half Step Up | p. 140 |
Middle Management | p. 141 |
A Real High Flyer | p. 142 |
Front-Line Managers | p. 143 |
Big Ideas from within the Team | p. 145 |
Sharing Power Creates Power | p. 147 |
Endnotes | p. 148 |
Building Operational Traction | p. 149 |
Commit with Confidence, Publicly | p. 150 |
Building Traction | p. 151 |
Accountability | p. 156 |
Simple Closed-Loop Accountability | p. 156 |
Promises Versus Declarations | p. 160 |
Shoot for the Moon-Drive Innovation | p. 161 |
Above and Below the Waterline | p. 163 |
Don't Get Overly Fixated on the Dashboard | p. 164 |
Ground Truth: The Real Results | p. 166 |
Misguided Incentives | p. 168 |
Performance Coaching | p. 171 |
Endnotes | p. 173 |
Over the Hump and Into the Slump | p. 175 |
Post-Launch Blues | p. 178 |
Ballast and Keel | p. 179 |
Mid-Course Adjustment | p. 181 |
The Process Is Not a One-Time Overlay | p. 182 |
Mini-Cascades | p. 184 |
Launching the New Year | p. 187 |
Oh Right, the Behaviors | p. 191 |
You Don't Get to Relax | p. 192 |
Plan to Punctuate the Equilibrium Regularly | p. 192 |
Endnotes | p. 194 |
Are You Up to the Challenge? | p. 195 |
White-Hot Commitment of the Leader | p. 196 |
Change the People, or Change the People | p. 197 |
You Don't Have All the Answers (And Nobody Expects You To) | p. 201 |
Get Real | p. 203 |
Go For It! | p. 204 |
Endnotes | p. 205 |
Afterword | p. 207 |
Acknowledgments | p. 217 |
About the Authors | p. 221 |
Index | p. 225 |
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