Succeeding With Change: Implementing Action-Driven Strategies

Challenging and stimulating Succeeding with Change offers practical guidance on managing strategic change. Learn about multiple minorities, the Spartacus challenge, the viscosity of the organization, memories of the future, the principle of least action, the rule of proportionate responsibility, cherishing the assets, the value of opportunism, the illusion of unity, initiative overload, the limitations of empowerment and how these concepts can help develop the effectiveness of strategic change.

Business & Money

Eccles, Tony

Management & Leadership

Harvard Business School Pr

Anyone can talk about strategic business change. It's one of the hottest topics at management seminars and corporate watering holes. But what matters most is turning ideas into action - compelling an organization to apply its knowledge, skills, and vision to implement the strategic projects that make a difference. "Succeeding with change" is the first nuts-and-bolts guide to implementing strategies and using them to make things happen - turn inertia into action, guide management succession, develop new partnerships, renovate for excellence, and more. Drawn from the author's major consulting and operational assignments, together with candid interviews with CEOs who have made rapid, measurable change a priority in their firms.

This is for managers who know that their organizations are stuck in a mindset that thrives on fashionable business theories that are no more than folk wisdom, and whose so-called strategies are little more than banal wish lists.
It puts forward the notion that the application of uncommon sense—thinking or acting differently from other organizations in a way that makes unusual sense—is the secret to competitive success.
Jules Goddard is a fellow of the Centre for Management Development at London Business School.
Tony Eccles is a visiting professor of strategic management at Cass Business School, City University, London.

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Succeeding With Change: Implementing Action-Driven Strategies

Succeeding With Change: Implementing Action-Driven Strategies

Uncommon Sense, Common Nonsense: Why Some Organisations Consistently Outperform Others