Making Strategy Work Building Sustainable Growth Capability

The next-step book for managers who are charged with implementing their company?s strategies. In this hands-on book, Timothy J. Galpin outlines the steps managers need to take so they can confidently implement corporate strategy within their departments and divisions and throughout their organizations. The author bridges the gap that so often exists between strategy and action, and offers the tools managers need to translate plans into results-oriented strategic change. In addition, this practical book outlines the foundations of strategic planning, presents a conceptual model for making corporate strategy work, and shows how to apply a project perspective to strategy.

TIMOTHY J. GALPIN is currently the practice leader for human resource strategy at Watson Wyatt Worldwide in Dallas, Texas. He began his professional career after earning a Ph.D. degree in organization development at U.C.L.A. and has since amassed extensive experience in both industry and consulting in North and South America and in Europe. Galpin is the author of The Human Side of Change (Jossey-Bass, 1996) and his work has also appeared in a number of periodical publications, including HR Magazine, Training and Development, Mergers and Acquisitions, the Journal of Business Strategy, and Employment Relations Today.