Offers a framework for transition acceleration that will help leaders diagnose their situations, craft winning transition strategies, and take charge quickly. This book shows how to learn about new organizations, build teams, create coalitions, secure early wins, and lay the foundation for longer-term success.

Written in Kotter's signature no-nonsense style, this concise and authoritative guide helps you set the stage for leading a successful transformation in your company.

Leaders in all fields - business, medicine, law, government - make crucial decisions every day. The harsh truth is that they mismanage many of those choices, even though they have the right intentions. Why is it so hard to make sound decisions? Sharing stories from business and beyond, the author offers powerful rules for avoiding each error.

Examines the efforts of more than 100 companies to remake themselves into better competitors. This book identifies the common mistakes leaders and managers make in attempting to create change and offers a step-by-step process to overcome the obstacles and carry out the firm's agenda.

Wondering how the most accomplished leaders from around the globe have tackled their toughest challenges? This title offers 12-14 insightful essays by top leaders in industry, the public sector, and academia on the most pressing issues they've faced. It gives you access to the wisdom and expertise of the world's most talented leaders.

Explains what strategy is, how to put together a strategic plan, what tools and resources are necessary to execute it, and how to measure results.

Wondering how the most accomplished leaders from around the globe have tackled their toughest challenges? This title offers 12-14 insightful essays by top leaders in industry, the public sector, and academia on the most pressing issues they've faced. It gives you access to the wisdom and expertise of the world's most talented leaders.

Often managers need to assess both financial and non-financial performance. What process would you use to measure things that are not easily quantifiable?

Making persuasive presentations isn't just a matter of charisma and fancy charts: it requires concrete skills that are vital to keeping your audience engaged and involved. This guide contains key information on how to customize your presentations to keep people focused and produce the results you want.

After three months in a new job, are you up to speed? Will you sink ...or swim? Transitions into new roles are the crucibles in which leaders get their toughest tests, and they're the defining factor in professional careers today. This title shows how you can survive and thrive in all the major transitions you may face during your career.

Leading clever people can be enormously challenging, yet doing so effectively is the key to your organization's sustained success. This book offers ideas, practices, and examples that you need to create an environment where your most brilliant people can flourish.

Implementing a layoff is one of the most difficult and painful challenges a manager can face. Handled skillfully and compassionately, a layoff can set your team and your company on a positive new path. But, when handled improperly, layoffs can have negative effects that impact morale, productivity and more. This volume provides managers with valuable advice proven strategies for laying off ...

Top Talent: Keeping Your Best People When You Need Them

For over 150 years, the New York Times has been the United States' newspaper of record. With unmatched breadth, depth, and quality of reporting, its coverage is consistently authoritative and absorbing.This unique collection of the Times' most fascinating and relevant articles about business opens a compelling window onto how one of the most powerful economies in human history came to be, ...

In all too many companies, CEO succession raises stress levels for everyone. New chief executives are under immense pressure to prove themselves quickly. This collection of Harvard Business Review articles can help you learn how to navigate and surmount the challenges that come with CEO transitions.

Reveals how to hone and deploy one's leadership assets while managing the inherent tensions at the heart of successful leadership.

In order to remain competitive in increasingly aggressive markets managers must adopt a positive attitude towards change. Successful managers know how to embrace change with an open mind and use it as a stimulus for new ideas, enthusiasm and progress.

Companies can succeed without destroying others. And they can lose miserably after competing well. Exceptional businesses win by actively shaping the game they're playing, not playing the game they find. This book shows you how to do this - by what value each player brings to the table, and which rules and tactics players use.

Every company has talented employees. But the best managers understand that having the right people in the right positions doesn't just happen it requires careful management and talent development. This collection of first-hand accounts gives you insight into how some of the world's top business leaders invested in human capital.

Presents strategies for creating and guiding work teams. This book instructs readers how to: organise a team with complimentary skills; clarify team goals, roles, and responsibilities; foster trust, creativity, and risk-taking; get teams back on track after a setback; and, collaborate to achieve team objectives.