The Forward-Focused Organization : Visionary Thinking and Breakthrough Leadership to Create Your Company's Future

Business success demands more than taking the road less traveled. It requires creating new roads and committing to future-focused breakthrough leadership. For busy managers, this timely book provides a direct and robust plan of action. It blends proven ideas from leading-edge thinkers with the author's original, hands-on approach to change management.

The Forward-Focused Organization shows how to move beyond kiss-of-death incremental change toward a corporate/entrepreneurial ("corpreneurial") environment that takes fast, giant steps into the future. Readers will learn how to adopt "ASAP management": the ability to anticipate what's ahead, develop the agility to operate in an accelerating marketplace, and identify opportunities before competitors do.

Rich in useful examples from traditional companies and dot-coms, this book covers every strategic and operational concern that change managers should be thinking about. On a humorously cautionary note, it also recaps "100 Ways to Self-Destruct as a Change Leader" and "100 Ways to Lose Customers.