Strategies are logical, forward looking, & market driven.
Culture is emotional, historical, & people driven, though
aligning them is critical as highly engaged companies are
shown to have 3X the operating margins of low engagement
organizations.
Also CEO surveys indicate
two-thirds of organizations
fail to sustain improvements, likely because behaviors
do not change, the methodology reveled in this book
succeeds in creating the self-awareness necessary to
sustain behavioral (i.e. cultural) changes.
Therefore a successful technique to align culture &
started, not based on opinions or theories, instead
developed through experimentation is valuable.
Revealed are practical and successful ways to align
behaviors that sustain improvements, from an author who
has transformed his own business as well as others in 32
countries.
"This is a book to be used." D. Hines,
NORTHROP GRUMMAN CORPORATION
"Whatever your business, manufacturing or
service, if you want to do better this is an essential
guidebook." T. Quick, Chair, Defence Materials
Technology Centre, Australia
"This book gives the reader a solid
approach to move ahead & I am eager to try some of the
ideas with my team." G. Angelov, Director
WHIRLPOOL CORPORATION
"is a masterful indictment on how a methodical and yet
subtle awareness of an individual's culture, and
influence this could have on their decision-making, can
readily facilitate solid and profitable strategic
objective alignment" G.Cole, Director Asia M-I SWACO
- A SCHLUMBERGER COMPANY
"It jumps the level of changing
behaviors." A. Valdez, LA-Z-BOY
Culturally On Plan shares a proven and successful
method to lead practical culture change to achieve
strategic objectives. It is based on recognizing patterns
in human change (for example, its always the other-guy
that must change).
Not only will does this book clearly provide a
practical & successful method to lead organizational
change, but on a personal level you will also realize
pragmatic non-biased ways to explore and improve your own
personal traits. (note: the CEO's behavior only affects 2
of 5 categories of personality, therefore the leadership
team must change)
This new method in reaching strategic objectives is
therefore centered on creating individual awareness of
traits and behaviors and letting the various leaders
compare those privately or publically to the desired
traits (in reaching the objectives) and developing a
Cultural Transformation Plan that reaches the level of
practical and proven actions that help in changing
traits. This awareness comes in the form of various
individual self-assessments in the areas of behaviors,
traits and decision-making abilities, to name a few.
The main steps that have led to
success:
1. Properly deploying the strategic objectives
2. Evolving a Cultural Transformation Plan
- Assessing the desired traits and behaviors vital
in supporting the strategy
- Creating awareness of leadership's current traits
and behaviors
- Identifying opportunities & practical actions to
align differences between the desired and current
behaviors
The book begins by exploring why two-thirds of continuous
improvement transformations in the U.S. fail to sustain
their results (according to CEO surveys). It then
explains how the method can be practically applied
resulting in successfully reaching objectives and
accomplishing cultural change. Consideration is given to:
Intuitive versus Analytic Thinking, Leading without
Power, Creating a Learning Organization, and Leading
instead of Managing, etc.