This book is consultant Robert MilesÂ’s reply to executives who want to be able to rise to the most pervasive challenge facing them today: how to achieve fundamental transformation without exposing the organization to unacceptable risk. The initial change condition of a corporation, described in chapter one, impart a bias at the launch of any corporate transformation. Some transformational leaders need to focus a lot of attention on creating resources to initiate a transformation effort.
Part one lays out in detail the major elements of the general framework for leading corporate transformation. It reveals specific examples how leader created energy for corporate transformation, built compelling strategic vision and grounded them in business success models, uniquely realigned their organization to reinforce the new direction, and put in the place a process architecture to keep all the parts focused while moving along the critical path of the transformation journey.
Part two demonstrates the generalizability of the framework for leading corporate transformation to four different transformation situations:
- Type I : repositioning a successful corporation
- Type II : revitalizing a corporation in crisis
- Type III : merging different businesses and cultures
- Type IV : managing the process of leadership succession
Each chapter in the second part of the book provides an in depth account of how the general framework was adapted to achieve successful transformation, spanning corporation-wide revitalization, repositioning, mergers, and leadership sucession challenges.