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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

Part OneThe Stacking the Deck Process

Breakthrough change is inherently unpredictable, making failures inevitable and flexibility an asset. You may find yourself needing to lead change in an environment that is indifferent or even fundamentally hostile to the new. How can you achieve breakthrough change more effectively and efficiently in such an atmosphere?

Stacking the Deck distills the techniques and processes I have learned through direct experience and hindsight into nine logical and sequential steps, described in Part . These chapters provide practical strategies and real-life stories that illustrate the actions leaders must take when implementing breakthrough change. In reading about the ways top leaders across the business world have ...

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ISBN: 9781118966907