Move past the obstacles and implement your new strategy
Move is your guide to mobilizing your whole organization to take your business forward. Whatever your needed transformation may be: a new initiative, a new market, a new product, your fresh strategy is up against a powerful foe: an organization's tendency to stay very busy and completely engaged what it's already doing. This book shows you how to cut through resistance and get your team engaged and proactively doing the new thing! Author Patty Azzarello draws on over twenty-five years of international business management experience to identify the chronic challenges that keep organizations from decisively executing strategy, and to give you a practical game plan for breaking through. Leaders tend to assume that stalls in execution are inevitable, unchanging parts of the workplace—but things can change. At the heart of every execution problem is the fact that there simply are not enough people doing what the business needs. This guide shows you how to get your entire organization on board—remove the fear, excuses, and hurdles—and uphold the new pursuit against distractions and dissent.
No transformation can succeed without suitable engagement from the whole organization, but building engagement can be difficult, uncomfortable, and tentative. This book shows you how to get it done.
- Get your organization to embrace and personally commit to the new work
- Remove obstacles and passive aggressive attacks that block progress
- Defend new strategic initiatives against short term pressures to revert to "business as usual"
- Sustain momentum and the desire to move forward
- Make sure no one is ever asking, 'Are we still doing this?'
Inertia isn't just a law of the universe, it's a law in the workplace that can be a major obstacle to making things happen. The great thing about inertia is that it cuts two ways: a body at rest remains at rest, but a body in motion remains in motion. People love to finish things. Move shows you how to make successful execution the new norm—starting today.
Introduction: Why Great Strategies and Change Initiatives Fail
Part 1: M = The Middle: Where Transformations Either Happen or Get Stuck
Chapter 1. The Beginning of the Middle: Why New Strategies Stall After the Exciting Kickoff
Chapter 2. Concrete Outcomes: Stop Admiring the Problem and Define Some Specific Actions
Chapter 3. Timing and Momentum: Maintaining a Sense of Urgency for a Long Time
Chapter 4. Control Points: Metrics that Drive Action on the Right Things
Chapter 5. Resource Reality: Your Strategy is Where You Put Your Resources
Chapter 6. Don't Sign Up for the Impossible
Chapter 7. Sponsors and Enemies: Reduce Your Personal Risk
Part 2: O = Organization: Are You Leading the Team You Have or the Team You Need?
Chapter 8. The Right Team: The Fundamental Ingredient for a Highly Effective Team
Chapter 9. Organize for Outcomes: Create the Ideal, Blank-sheet Org Chart
Chapter 10. The People: How to attract the right people and Eliminate the Wrong People
Chapter 11: Building Capacity: Performance Management and Delegating for Development
Chapter 12: Unstructured Conversation: How to Drive Personal Accountability and Belief
Chapter 13. Stop Having Status Meetings: Go Faster and Reduce Risk
Chapter 14: Virtual and Remote Teams: Optimizing Performance and Results from Afar
Chapter 15: Engagement and Context: Motivating People to Actually Care
Part 3: V= Valor: Facing the Hardest Stuff with Courage and Persistence
Chapter 16. Mission Impossible: Dealing with Obstacles, Fear, and Imposter Syndrome
Chapter 17. Burn the Ships at the Beach: How to Keep Moving Forward When No One Wants To
Chapter 18. Too Busy to Scale: Use Ruthless Priorities Enable Growth
Chapter 19. Detail: The Momentum Killer: Manage Outcomes Instead
Chapter 20. Clarity and Conflict: Expose and Master Necessary Conflict—Don't Avoid It
Chapter 21. Decision Stall: Accelerate Effective Decision Making
Chapter 22. Tracking & Consequences: How to Identify and Recover from Setbacks
Part 4: E=Everyone: You Can Lead a Transformation from the Top, But You Can't Do a Transformation from the Top
Chapter 23. Conversation: Change How You Communicate to Make Your Strategy Stick
Chapter 24: Decorate the Change: "Yes, We Are Really Doing This"
Chapter 25. Top Down Communications: Why People Do and Don't Listen
Chapter 26. Listen on Purpose: Finding the Insights that Makes You Brilliant
Chapter 27: Sharing Information: Communicating Across Organizational Silos
Chapter 28. Power & Trust: How to Make People Feel Like Super-Heroes
Acknowledgement
Resources
About the Author
Index
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