1. The Challenge of Leading Strategic Change
I was recently talking with a CEO (I will call her Maria) about a major transformation that she was leading in her company. After several minutes of explaining her change plan, she asked me if I could recommend a good book or article for her to read on leading strategic change. I mentioned that, in fact, I had a book coming out on the topic. Graciously Maria congratulated me and then asked, “So what’s new and different in your book?”
“That’s simple,” I said. “Most other books on change have it backwards. They take an ‘organization-in’ approach wherein they outline all the organizational levers, such as reward systems, organization structures, performance management processes, and so on, that you should ...
Get It Starts with One: Changing Individuals Changes Organizations, Third Edition now with the O’Reilly learning platform.
O’Reilly members experience books, live events, courses curated by job role, and more from O’Reilly and nearly 200 top publishers.
