Based on the–reaching and forward-thinking curriculum of the executive education programs being conducted by Arthur D. Little and Innovation Associates, This book offer a balanced, holistic approach to managing change that recognizes the vital importance of intelligently designed structures and the capacity of people to learn and respond effectively to what ever happens. It reconciles and integrates such seemingly polar opposites as reengineering and learning- efficiency and creativity-action and emotion strategy and implementation – and bottom line result and investment in the future.
Visionary in the scope, yet firmly rooted in practical experience and day-to-day realities, here are the principles and tools you need to keep your organization moving forward as fast as your time. You’ll learn how to manage for:
- Strategic flexibility, to continually redefine goals without sacrificing your organization’s core values.
- Change-readiness, to galvanize action toward your organization’s vision without having to wait for crisis.
- Hidden leverage, to identify, use, and adapt the unwritten rules that drives your organization by applying “system thinking”
- Operational alignment, to move from system thinking to system action, simultaneously changing the many interrelated facets of your organization without disrupting performance.
- Organizational involvement, to enlist the support of the key employees by changing the way they think about their day-to-day actions, so that they become the agents of change rather than its victims.
- Learning acceleration, to build up an infrastructure of continuous learning so that your organization improves how it improves.