A Perfect Conspiracy: It Takes Great Courage to Overcome 800 Years of Greed

Childress, John R.

Business & Money

AuthorHouse

Literature & Fiction

Contemporary

LEVERAGE: The CEO's Guide to Corporate Culture: A book specially written for the CEO and business leader to better understand what corporate culture is, why it matters, the impact on performance, where culture comes from, how to better understand the strenghts and weaknesses of your own culture, and importantly, how to develop and sustain high performance culture. With over 35 years of experience advising CEOs and senior executive teams of global organizations, international business consultant and author John R. Childress brings to life the important elements of corporate culture including the role of leadership, approaches to culture change, culture myths, culture surveys and assessments and the role of culture in business performance and mergers &amp; acquisitions. The writing style is direct and to the point since CEOs and business leaders have little time to wade through consultant 'gobblygook' or academic text. LEVERAGE is also filled with examples and case studies that bring the topic of corporate culture to life!

Leverage: The CEO's Guide to Corporate Culture

Management & Leadership

Principia Associates

Is Strategy Killing Your Business? There is no strategy without execution, and there is no execution without leadership. Strategies are meant to carry companies onwards and upwards to lofty performance and competitive advantage. Sadly, in the majority of firms, big and small, strategies are rarely delivered and often die a silent death on a dusty shelf in the corner office, along with failed strategies from years gone by. In a recent McKinsey &amp; Co study of 197 companies, despite 97% of directors believing they had the right 'strategic vision', only 33% reported achieving significant strategic success. Other studies confirm this wide gap between strategy and execution. The important thing is not having a strategy, it's getting it implemented. ~Jack Welch Strategy is not a document, a binder, PowerPoint charts, graphs, customer or competitive analyses. Strategy is a contact sport and does not exist without robust execution actions (not plans, actions). Too often good strategies fail to get implemented because of the overriding focus of most companies on solving day-to-day business problems. There is no time nor energy nor resources left to execute on strategic initiatives. What is needed is shift by the senior leadership team to focus on strategy execution. Current studies show that less than 5% of senior executive time is spend on strategy execution. But focus in not sufficient. Also required are a robust strategy execution process and a business methodology, complete with accountabilities, clear metrics, cascading objectives, employee engagement, governance, transparency and teamwork. A recent BSColl study showed that those organizations with a defined strategy execution process significantly outperform those without. FASTBREAK: The CEO's Guide to Strategy Execution is a new book by John R Childress, a pioneer in leadership, culture change and strategy execution and is a no-nonsense, straight talking how to book for those interested in effective strategy execution. In just 200 pages Childress presents the rationale for effective strategy execution, the reasons why most organizations fail, and a step-by-step approach, complete with templates, to building your own strategy execution roadmap and process. The book also filled with case studies from the likes of Ford, Continental Airlines, Lycoming Engines, and others..

Fastbreak: The CEO's Guide to Strategy Execution

CULTURE RULES, AND CULTURE HAS RULES.
While everyone is talking about corporate culture and its importance for business success, the core principles and drivers that build, shape and sustain corporate culture are poorly understood. In this timely book, John R Childress shows that most of what we understand about corporate culture is wrong. Corporate culture is a business system, and like any critical business system, is composed of multiple drivers, all of which interact to influence “how things work around here” and ultimately, business results.
If you don’t understand your culture, you don’t understand your business!
With over 35 years of experience advising and supporting CEOs, Boards and senior executives on how culture impacts business results, John brings to life the 10 Core Principles of Corporate Culture and how they can be used to improve business performance, the customer experience and employee engagement. This book also explores the impact of corporate culture on important business challenges, such as Innovation, Mergers &amp; Acquisitions, Employee Engagement, Customer Satisfaction, Value Creation, Business Growth, Leadership Development, Strategy Execution, Turnarounds, Start-Ups, Digital Transformation and Going Global.

Culture Rules!: The 10 Core Principles of Corporate Culture and how to use them to create greater business success

Business Culture

This book will change your life and your future! Hundreds and thousands of readers from every walk of life are finding inspiration, empowerment and truly effective solutions with this very important book of our time. You are there- in person with 100 of America's greatest leaders, such as Billionaire Bill Gates, the outspoken Ross Perot, the legendary Lee Iacocca, many superb female leaders like Cathleen Black and Peggy Dulaney, top notch CEO's like Jack Welch of GE, futurist John Naisbitt, motivators Tony Robbins and Stephen Covey and Cabinet Members, Robert Reich and Donna Shalala. As each leader shares their life stories and secrets for success, you will benefit with well-proven practical ideas you can use right away in your own life. You will learn how to really improve personally and professionally This is a best selling book around the world. Also available in softcover.

21st Century Leadership: Dialogues With 100 Top Leaders

Senn, Larry E.

McFarland, Lynne Joy

Executive Excellence Pub

Some great thoughts on Re-engineering the Corporate Culture. Worth the read!

In the Eye of the Storm: Re-Engineering Corporate Culture

Biography & History

Leadership Pr Inc

As we enter a new millennium of leadership, the rules of the game have not only changed they are constantly changing. How can an organization hope to survive when the environment in which it is doing business is continually confronted by broadening competition, shorter product cycle times, old paradigm/new paradigm leadership questions, and an increasingly high premium on available time? The answer is surprisingly not about working more, harder, or faster. It is actually conveyed in the title of this book. The secret of a winning culture is the building of high-performance teams. Is that a secret? Probably not. The real secret this book reveals, then, is in how to make it happen. 
The Secret of a Winning Culture: Building High-Performance Teams sets forth a proven series of principles and processes that ensures an organization's success when leaders change, mergers and acquisitions join cultures, change initiatives are introduced, and faster simply isn't enough. Putting these ideas into action unlocks the power of high performance teams, which in turn, produces high performance organizations. 
The secret to building high-performance teams ultimately lies in the health of the organizational culture. Are people throughout the company feeling energized, motivated, able to grow personally and professionally? Or are they overstressed, overworked, focused solely on numbers and results? 
This book outlines how to realize a set of healthy working principles for organizational change and life-effectiveness that both produces results and is inherently fulfilling. Change is not about to go away, which is why the message of The Secret of a Winning Culture: Building High-Performance Teams is so valuable —to ensure today's corporate cultures are still thriving tomorrow.

The Secret of a Winning Culture: Building High-Performance Teams

European business leaders describe how business has changed with the freedom of the EU and what is required of companies and both sides of the Atlantic to do business in the new century.

A Time for Leadership: Global Perspectives from an Accelerated Market Place

Senn-Delaqney Leadership's powerful approach to creating a successful and healthy organizational culture.

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A Perfect Conspiracy: It Takes Great Courage to Overcome 800 Years of Greed

A Perfect Conspiracy: It Takes Great Courage to Overcome 800 Years of Greed

Leverage: The CEO's Guide to Corporate Culture

Fastbreak: The CEO's Guide to Strategy Execution

Culture Rules!: The 10 Core Principles of Corporate Culture and how to use them to create greater business success

21st Century Leadership: Dialogues With 100 Top Leaders

In the Eye of the Storm: Re-Engineering Corporate Culture

The Secret of a Winning Culture: Building High-Performance Teams

A Time for Leadership: Global Perspectives from an Accelerated Market Place

The Secret of a Winning Culture: Building High-Performance Teams