Navigate the swirl 7 crucial conversations for business transformation : activate your purpose, align your team, achieve your goals

Detalles Bibliográficos
Otros Autores: Hawkes, Richard (Change leadership expert), author (author)
Formato: Libro electrónico
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Hoboken, New Jersey : Wiley [2022]
Materias:
Ver en Biblioteca Universitat Ramon Llull:https://discovery.url.edu/permalink/34CSUC_URL/1im36ta/alma991009659941406719
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Cover
  • Title Page
  • Copyright Page
  • Contents
  • Foreword
  • The Framework of Transformation
  • An Organization-Wide Approach
  • How We're Transforming
  • Growth River's Valuable Contribution
  • Acknowledgments
  • A Note to the Reader: How to Use This Book
  • Introduction:The Swirl
  • Part I Framing the Conversation
  • Chapter 1 Understanding Organizations Social Systems, Not Machines
  • Leading Social Systems versus Leading Mechanical Systems
  • The Art of Alignment
  • Chapter 2 Understanding Businesses The Business Triangle
  • The Importance of Visualizing Shared Work
  • The Business Triangle
  • The Engine of a Business
  • Chapter 3 Understanding Growth Dynamics of Organizational Development
  • Growth Moves Through Stages
  • Growth Happens in Three Domains
  • What Limits Growth? Understanding Constraints
  • Two Types of Performance Improvement: Horizontal and Vertical
  • Part II The Evolution of an Enterprise
  • Chapter 4 The Four Stages of Enterprise Evolution
  • Stages of How, Not What
  • Chapter 5 A Business Is Born: Stage 1, Independent Contributors
  • Chapter 6 A Leader Steps Up: Stage 2, Directive Leadership
  • Avoiding Stage 2 Bottlenecks
  • Chapter 7 A 5:30 Wake-Up Call: The Transition to Stage 3, Distributed Leadership
  • "To Win We Had to Change"
  • Bureaucracy Is Not the Answer
  • Chapter 8 A Complete System of Roles: Stage 3, Distributed Leadership
  • A Matrix Structure
  • The Changing Role of the CEO: From Executive Leader to Enterprise Architect
  • Straightening the Spaghetti
  • Why Roles Matter
  • Architecting a Complete System of Capabilities and Roles
  • Unleashing Strategic Intelligence
  • Chapter 9 Leveraging Creative Tension: Stage 3, Distributed Leadership, continued
  • A Complete System of Roles Leverages Creative Tension
  • The Natural Creative Tension in Business Triangles
  • Depersonalizing Conflict.
  • The Natural Creative Tension in Enterprises
  • Leading Through Creative Tensions
  • Banish the Scourge of Functionitis
  • A North Star for Resolving Creative Tensions
  • Chapter 10 High-Performing Teams: Stage 3, Distributed Leadership, continued
  • Teams at Work
  • Understanding Teams
  • The Building Blocks of High-Performing Teams
  • Shared Language
  • Secret Agents of Transformation
  • Chapter 11 Toward a Flat, Agile Organization: Stage 4: Leaders Leading Leaders
  • Enterprise Evolution Shouldn't Be Rushed
  • Part III The Seven Crucial Conversations
  • Chapter 12 Organizations Evolve at the Speed of Conversation
  • Setting the Stage for the Seven Crucial Conversations
  • Chapter 13 Conversation 1: Activating Purpose
  • Effective Decision-Making
  • Three Forms of Decision-Making
  • The Law of the Lid
  • Chapter 14 Conversation 2: Driving Focus
  • A Shared Transformational Journey
  • Chapter 15 Conversation 3: Shifting Mindset
  • Building Trust
  • Chapter 16 Conversation 4: Specifying Capabilities and Roles
  • Chapter 17 Conversation 5: Streamlining Interdependencies
  • Analyzing the Performance System
  • Aligning Between Teams
  • Chapter 18 Conversation 6: Aligning Strategies
  • Four Metrics for Competitive Advantage
  • Market Potential
  • Operational Scalability
  • Business Model Sustainability
  • Financial Returns
  • Chapter 19 Conversation 7: Implementing Initiatives
  • Chapter 20 An Invitation to Transformation
  • Closing Reflections
  • Glossary
  • Learning a Language
  • Summary of the Seven Crucial Conversations
  • Setting the Stage for the Seven Crucial Conversations
  • Change Domain 1: Leadership and Culture
  • Change Domain 2: Capabilities and Roles
  • Change Domain 3: Strategies and Implementation
  • Index
  • EULA.