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.
Table of Contents:
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
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Review :
..".outstanding book shows readers how to improve strategic processes and execution... This is indeed one of the very best of the year!" -- CEO Refresher.com
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