Succeeding at the Top

Introduction

This workbook is designed for CEOs, executives, and senior managers who have been assigned to a new position with sufficient authority, if not an explicit mandate, to enact change. My intent is to provide a foundation for how the executive can successfully introduce change into an organization by taking into account the various barriers erected when even the notion of change is first introduced. The workbook provides a basic introduction to the dynamics of organizations that must be understood in order to introduce change successfully.

Why lump the roles of CEOs, executives, and senior managers together? It might seem at first blush that their respective ranges of authority differ enough to warrant separate accounts. That is indeed ...