Guidelines for igniting and sustaining a change initiative that will generate competitive advantage.
As a coach and facilitator of a number of highly successful change efforts, the author has discovered a few key practices can provide leaders with a clear roadmap for guiding a major strategic initiative.
Based on the author's experience managing many assignments for large corporations, when six conditions for igniting a transformation process are fulfilled, and are coupled with these six requisites of leadership engagement, real change will occur.
As one case indicates, teams that employ the author's approach can become a model for others in their organization.
Effective leaders helping to produce real value for great teams have to go for change selectively, constructively, personally and, above all, credibly.
A creative look at overcoming the many hurdles involved in implementing change can provide leaders with a clear indicator of whether or not to proceed with a major effort or, instead, to save their credibility and elect to aim at more focused operational improvements.
