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Stacking the Deck: How to Lead Breakthrough Change Against Any Odds
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Stacking the Deck: How to Lead Breakthrough Change Against Any Odds

by David S. Pottruck
October 2014
Intermediate to advanced
256 pages
6h 9m
English
Jossey-Bass
Content preview from Stacking the Deck: How to Lead Breakthrough Change Against Any Odds

Chapter 6Step Six: Partitioning the Project and Building Momentum with Early Wins

Far-reaching change initiatives can be hard for people to visualize, particularly if the gap between here and there, between the present and the future seems extraordinarily large. Change itself is hard enough, but a change that seems abstract and far in the future is even more difficult to grasp. Leading breakthrough change often means working toward an end that seems distant and out of focus. As we saw in earlier steps of the Stacking the Deck process, if your people can't visualize the future in real terms, they'll find it difficult to muster the urgency to undertake the journey.

You have to be committed to your ultimate goal, and you must be able to make ...

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ISBN: 9781118966907