Big Ideas to Big Results: Remake and Recharge Your Company, Fast (Paperback)

Chapter 1: A Better Way 1 The Sugar High 3 Get Your ACT Together 6 Make Transformation a Simple Routine 9 Endnotes 11 Chapter 2: Breaking Through Gridlock 13 Gridlock! The Task Overload Epidemic 13 Where Did All of This Clutter Come From? 14 The New Definition of Big Box Retail 15 Task Overload Undermines Accountability 16 One Company-Not Many 18 Busting Through Gridlock: Getting Started 19 The Leader's Challenge: Less Is More 20 Fighting Fires Versus Fire Prevention 23 Endnotes 24 Chapter 3: Creating Safe Passage 25 Safe Passage-A Clear Transformation Process 25 The ACT Process Basics: Powerfully Simple 28 This Is Not a New Religion, Just a Better Way of Managing the Business 30 Endnotes 32 Chapter 4: Confronting Today's Reality 33 The Emperor's Ugly Clothes 35 Dialogue Versus Discussion 36 Generating Dialogue as a Leader 37 Priming the Pump 39 Canary in a Coal Mine 41 On the Outside Looking In 44 Talk with Customers and Noncustomers 47 You Are Here: Map the Market 48 Confronting Reality Work Session 52 Endnotes 54 Chapter 5: Sharpening the Strategy Arrow 55 A One-Page View of the Future 56 Creating a Strategic Vision 60 Business Success Modeling 63 Due Diligence on Yourself 65 Endnotes 71 Chapter 6: Absolute Alignment 73 Translation to Three Corporate Initiatives 74 Have You Lost Your Marbles? 76 What NOT to Do 78 Restack the Whole 80 Individual Commitments to Action 83 Alignment of Commitments-Reducing Silos 84 Alignment of Values 87 Put Your Money Where Your Mouth Is 89 The Bottom Line on Alignment 90 Endnotes 93 Chapter 7: Rapidly Engaging the Full Organization 95 It's All about the Results 96 Quantum Jumps 98 "Back in Black" Friday 99 Employee Engagement Is Not Barbeque 100 High-Engagement 101 Hear It from My Boss 102 Unbounded, But Grounded in Reality 102 Putting It All Together 104 Reaching Scale and Speed 109 Lighting 1,000 Fires Only Gets You Burned 110 Endnotes 112 Chapter 8: Productive Speed 113 Get the Train Moving, Now 113 The Benefits of Productive

Michael T. Kanazawa, chief executive officer of Dissero Partners, is a business advisor, author, and speaker. Michael serves as a business advisor to executives on the topics of corporate transformation, strategy, business execution, and leadership. Previously, he built the technology and innovation practice at a premier consulting firm that spun off from the Boston Consulting Group. With a blend of operating experience at Fortune 500 companies and collaboration on the development of the Accelerated Corporate Transformation (ACT) process, he brings a practical approach to driving breakthrough growth to his clients. He has worked with organizations including Silicon Valley start-ups, private equity investors and global corporations, such as AT&T, Anadigics, Intel, PG&E, Schlumberger, Symantec, and Verizon. Robert H. Miles, Ph.D., chairman of Dissero Partners, is a thought and practice leader in the fields of corporate transformation and executive leadership. He also serves as chairman of Galloway Consulting and president of Corporate Transformation Resources. Miles was a faculty member at the Yale School of Management and later at Harvard Business School, where he chaired the innovative program for CEOs, division presidents, and their teams that generated the initial insights for the ACT methodology. He has authored several books on his intensive support of corporate transformations at over twenty-five companies, including Corporate Comeback and Leading Corporate Transformation.