Description
Book SynopsisChange is a constant, and leaders must do more than keep upthey must innovate and accelerate to succeed. Yet people are often unnerved by change. As a leader during a time of transformation, you may stand up before teams that are indifferent, or even hostile, and need to convince them that change is necessary and urgent. More than money, time, or resources, the ability to lead these people determines your ultimate success or failure. What does it take to be an effective change leader and increase the odds of success?
Stacking the Deck offers a proven, practical approach for inspiring meaningful, lasting change across an organization. Stacking the Deck presents a nine-step course of action leaders can follow from the first realization that change is needed through all the steps of implementation, including assembling the right team of close advisors and getting the word out to the wider group.
Based on Dave Pottruck''s experiences leading change as CEO of
Table of Contents
Foreword by Tony La Russa xi
Introduction 1
PART ONE THE STACKING THE DECK PROCESS
1 Step One: Establishing the Need to Change and a Sense of Urgency 15
2 Step Two: Assembling and Unifying Your Leadership Team 31
3 Step Three: Developing and Communicating a Clear and Compelling Vision of the Future 46
4 Step Four: Planning Ahead for Known and Unknown Barriers 58
5 Step Five: Creating a Workable Plan 72
6 Step Six: Partitioning the Project and Building Momentum with Early Wins 88
7 Step Seven: Defining Metrics, Developing Analytics, and Communicating Results 99
8 Step Eight: Assessing, Recruiting, and Empowering the Broader Team 116
9 Step Nine: Testing with Pilots to Increase Success 134
PART TWO LEADING THE CHANGE
10 Using the Nine Steps to Bring Your Initiative to the Real World 153
11 Communicating and Connecting to Inspire 170
12 Innovation: Ideas and Perspectives 194
Epilogue: Final Comments and Reflections 207
Appendix: Featured Leaders 214
Acknowledgments 221
About the Author 224
Index 227
