Leading your business forward : aligning goals, people, and systems for sustainable success / Shane A. Yount, John M. Pyecha ; with Anna Versteeg, Seth Davies, Linda Segall.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Yount, Shane A., author.

Pyecha, John, author.

Contributor:

Versteeg, Anna, contributor.

Davies, Seth, contributor.

Segall, Linda, contributor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Success in business.

Strategic planning.

Industrial management.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (pages cm)

Edition:

1 Edition.

Place of Publication:

New York : McGraw-Hill Education, [2013]

Language Note:

English

System Details:

text file

Summary:

IF YOU CAN READ A GPS DEVICE, YOU CAN NAVIGATE--AND SUSTAIN--YOUR COMPANY’S PATH TOWARD DRAMATIC GROWTH AND PROFIT SIMPLE IS BETTER! Businesses today are overwhelmed by complex, expensive, and time-consuming initiatives. These ideas sound great in the boardroom but fail when deployed in the real world. You need a business tool that takes your organization where it needs to go and is so simple and repeatable that anyone can use it. Just like a GPS helps get us where we are going, Leading Your Business Forward lays out a proven but simple process that any business can follow! Using the same five simple steps in every car's global positioning system--Acquiring, Settings, Where To, Recalculating, and Arriving--this book demonstrates just how quickly you can energize and transform your workplace. Leading Your Business Forward utilizes a simple Leadership GPS to show you how to: DETERMINE YOUR ORGANIZATION’S LONG-TERM GOALS ENGAGE YOUR STAFF TO WORK TOWARD THEM GAUGE AND IMPROVE PERFORMANCE ON AN ONGOING BASIS MANAGE SUCCESS SO IT STICKS You will learn how to apply GPS-based methods to mobilize operations while incorporating "destination-focused" initiatives. The authors explain why high-performing companies devote enormous energy toward three vital components: goals, people, and systems. And while the world's most profitable corporations all share a clearly defined vision and mission, what's often missing is a direct link between tactical operational goals and strategic direction. Not anymore. With Leading Your Business Forward you'll learn to incorporate measurable goals into your company's daily regimen. Plus, you'll have the management tools to maintain teams that are engaged, focused, accountable--and poised to drive results. Leading Your Business Forward provides everything you need to determine baseline indicators of capability and measure employee engagement, while setting a course for transformation--from the inside out. Set Your Company's Course for Unparalleled Growth! Over the past decade, business leaders have been given a number of different road maps to success, all of which promised viable how-to solutions for business growth. They were very good maps, yet, with few exceptions, they did not guide us to a sustainable level of success. What's missing? A true GPS for leaders. Utilizing the five simple steps associated with your car's GPS system, this guide shows executives how to manage expectations and measure employee engagement and a...

Contents:

About the authors

Acknowledgements

Introduction

Acquiring

What's the status of your goals?

Assessment : "acquiring" your fix on business-focused goals

How engaged are your people?

Do you have leadership systems in place?

Settings

People setting no. 1 interpersonal relations

People setting no. 2 Behavioral expectations

People setting no. 3 Feedback

People setting no. 4 leadership traits

People, the scorecard, and engagement

Recalculating

When the scorecard turns red (or too green)

Improving performance and engagement

Arriving!

Celebrate!

Sustaining success

Appendix i: cultural differences

Appendix ii: process based leadership business scorecards

Appendix iii: case studies

Case study 1: Cultural change at army industrial base maintenance repair and overhaul facility (aibmrof)

Case study 2: Measurable results at large scale military equipment OEM

Case study 3: Oil and gas processor (OGP) achieves lasting returns

Case study 4: International ink manufacturer gets great return

Case study 5: Private jet manufacturer reaches new heights

Case study 6: World class evaporator manufacturer delivers results

Case study 7: Army tactical assault vehicle overhaul repair facility improves operations

Appendix iv: 25 leadership GPS "tuesday tips"

Bibliography.

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographical references (pages 227) and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9780071817141

007181714X

OCLC:

850605836