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.

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.

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.

If you're a general manager or CFO, do you feel you're spending too much on IT or wishing you could get better returns from your IT investments? If so, it's time to examine what's behind this IT-as-cost mind-set. In The Real Business of IT, Richard Hunter and George Westerman reveal that the cost mind-set stems from IT leaders' inability to communicate about the business value they create-so CIOs

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 ...

During tough economic times it's more vital than ever to hold on to and leverage your top performers: They've got the outsize smarts and dedication your firm needs to survive recession and emerge stronger. Yet in 2009 many employers are failing to support and sustain their best people. Loyalty and trust are out the window. Engagement is through the floor. Flight risk is at an all time high. In ...

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.

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.

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.

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.

Most companies yearn to come up with a game-changing innovation like Apple's iPod, or create an entirely new category like Facebook. Many make genuine efforts to be innovative - they spend on R&D, bring in creative designers, hire innovation consultants. But they get disappointing results. Why? This title offers a provocative answer.

Negotiation - whether hammering out a great job offer, settling a dispute with a client, drafting a contract, or making trade-offs between business units - is both a necessary and challenging aspect of business life. This book helps managers sharpen skills and yield a seizable payoff.

Shows how to keep a company from being blinded by its own success - and how to put a firm on the path to sustained greatness. This book describes the common pitfalls that managers fall into, and outlines the specific processes that managers can use to help their organizations overcome their inertia before it's too late.

Challenges what you thought you knew about competing in the crowded market place. Based on a study of 150 strategic moves spanning more than a hundred years and thirty industries, the authors argue that lasting success comes from creating 'blue oceans': untapped new market spaces ripe from growth.

The American people are frustrated with their government. Yet our nation has a proud history of great achievements: victory in World War II, our national highway system, welfare reform, and the moon landing. We need more successes like these to reclaim government's legacy of competence. This title explains how to do it.

'Web 2.0' is the portion of the Internet that's interactively produced by many people; it includes Wikipedia, Facebook, Twitter, Delicious, and prediction markets. Now, leading organizations are bringing the Web's novel tools and philosophies inside, creating Enterprise 2.0. This book shows how they're doing this, and why it's benefiting them.

Can the workplace be more productive by including avatars, three-dimensional environments, and participant-driven outcomes? This book aims to prove that it is not only possible, it is inevitable.

Every business needs a business plan, a plan to meet the expected and unexpected opportunities and obstacles the future holds. This book shows you how to take a long, hard look at each element of the plan and then how to communicate the right message to the right people to maximize the chances of getting your business venture launched.

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.

Shows how the best change leaders use not just reports or analysis, but gloves, video cameras, airplanes, office design, and other concrete elements to impel people toward positive action. This book reveals how this appeal to the heart-over the mind - motivates people to overcome even daunting obstacles to change and produce results.