The Power of Strategic Commitment: Achieving Extraordinary Results Through Total Alignment and Engagement

Achieving Extraordinary Results Through Total Alignment and Engagement
Erscheinungsjahr 2009
ISBN: 978-0-8144-1374-6
Verlag: McGraw-Hill Education

Buch, Englisch, 280 Seiten, Format (B × H): 63 mm x 92 mm

Even the most well-thought-out initiatives will fail without true employee ownership, accountability, and engagement. Yet most managers and executives don’t have a clear system for ensuring the support they need from those around them. The Power of Strategic Commitment helps readers improve their strategic processes by enlisting the support of managers, employees, boards, suppliers, investors, and others. The book outlines the key factors that determine commitment, providing powerful ways to build commitment that cost nothing.This book provides practical methods for getting everyone behind the kind of important organizational actions that drive results.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Weiss, Alan

Leibner, Josh

Mader, Gershon

Fachgebiete

• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Betriebswirtschaft Management Unternehmensführung
• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Betriebswirtschaft Management Unternehmensorganisation & Entwicklungsstrategien

Inhaltsverzeichnis

CONTENTS Acknowledgments Introduction Chapter 1: Why Commitment TrumpsCompliance Why Commitment Is More Important Than Ever Chapter 2: What Is Strategic Commitment? If It’s So Important, Why Don’t I Know About It? Chapter 3: Working Back from the Future How to Generate Strategic Commitment Chapter 4: Pushing Through the Thermal Layer How to Engage Middle Managers in Strategic Commitment Chapter 5: Leading from the Front “Follow me!” (Not, “I’ll Be There in a Minute.?.?.”) Chapter 6: Taking a Stand—The Key to Strategic Commitment Why the Aztecs Put a Stake in the Ground Chapter 7: Building and Restoring Trust Essential Competencies for Generating StrategicCommitment Chapter 8: Return on Strategic Commitment On Competitive Edge and Profit Margins Chapter 9: Lead, Follow, or Get Out of the Way—HR at the Crossroads The Role of HR in Generating Strategic Commitment Chapter 10: Strategic Commitment as Organizational Lifestyle Integrating the Process into Organizational DNA Chapter 11: The Diversity of Strategic Commitment There Is No Such Thing as “But We’re Different” Afterword: Strategic Commitment IsEssential in Volatile Economies Appendix: Tips, Techniques, and Tools for Generating, Monitoring, and Addressing Setbacks Related to Strategic Commitment Index About the Authors

Über Autor(innen)

Weiss, Alan
McGraw-Hill authors represent the leading experts in their fields and are dedicated to improving the lives, careers, and interests of readers worldwide

Josh Leibner and Gershon Mader are founding partners of Quantum Performance, Inc., a management consulting firm with global clients including Capital One, Cisco Systems, Prudential Financial, Cushman & Wakefield and many others. Alan Weiss is a consultant, speaker, and author whose consulting firm, Summit Consulting Group, Inc., has attracted clients including Merck, Hewlett-Packard, and hundreds of other top organizations.