Mastering the Challenges of Leading Change: Inspire the People and Succeed Where Others Fail - Hardcover

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H. James Dallas is an accomplished senior executive with extensive experience as an agent of change in large domestic and international corporate settings. He has more than 30 years of experience bridging the gap between strategy and execution, using IT for competitive advantage, and developing leadership.

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If you’ve led projects, you know the three Ts of project management―tasks, timing, and technologies. But, when real change needs to occur to gain a competitive edge, the Ts aren’t enough, which is why on average 75 percent of change initiatives fail. You can elevate your status and increase your value as a change leader by becoming an authority on the four Ps of change leadership explained in Mastering the Challenges of Leading Change.

Written by a change leader with an extensively triumphant track record that includes more than 10 transformational and turnaround initiatives, 20 acquisition integrations, five operations/quality shared services centers of excellence, and three innovation centers―this game-changing guide is conveniently organized around the four cornerstones of the author’s personal approach to managing change: priorities, politics, people, and perseverance. With the casual forthrightness of a trusted mentor, he steps beyond one-dimensional analytics and demonstrates how engaging people, both inside and outside the company, produces the meaningful solutions leading to success. Spearheading change doesn’t come from a formula; instead it emerges from relationships developed with honest communication and informed decision making. James Dallas demonstrates this through firsthand accounts of how he made it happen, repeatedly, in the field. A wealth of concrete best practices packaged in handy checklists will let you apply your knowledge easily and begin mastering the art of:

• Gathering data with an innovative method that leads to greater, more reliable insight
• Picking the core team and prioritizing tasksto move forward quickly
• Delivering the best message, including words to avoid at all costs
• Overcoming resistance to change with proven techniques
• Building trust among your teams
• Managing the group dynamics that can poison your best plans
• Fixing what breaks along the way for continued improvement

Change is essential for a business to sustain growth regardless of industry, country, or organizational structure, but it cannot come from external goals. While the most important takeaways include how to identify and enable the people capable of driving change, by the end, you’ll see that Mastering the Challenges of Leading Change starts with a change in yourself to discover why you do it.

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If you've led projects, you know the three Ts of project management?tasks, timing, and technologies. But, when real change needs to occur to gain a competitive edge, the Ts aren't enough, which is why on average 75 percent of change initiatives fail. You can elevate your status and increase your value as a change leader by becoming an authority on the four Ps of change leadership explained in Mastering the Challenges of Leading Change.

Written by a change leader with an extensively triumphant track record that includes more than 10 transformational and turnaround initiatives, 20 acquisition integrations, five operations/quality shared services centers of excellence, and three innovation centers?this game-changing guide is conveniently organized around the four cornerstones of the author's personal approach to managing change: priorities, politics, people, and perseverance. With the casual forthrightness of a trusted mentor, he steps beyond one-dimensional analytics and demonstrates how engaging people, both inside and outside the company, produces the meaningful solutions leading to success. Spearheading change doesn't come from a formula; instead it emerges from relationships developed with honest communication and informed decision making. James Dallas demonstrates this through firsthand accounts of how he made it happen, repeatedly, in the field. A wealth of concrete best practices packaged in handy checklists will let you apply your knowledge easily and begin mastering the art of:

• Gathering data with an innovative method that leads to greater, more reliable insight
• Picking the core team and prioritizing tasks to move forward quickly
• Delivering the best message, including words to avoid at all costs
• Overcoming resistance to change with proven techniques
• Building trust among your teams
• Managing the group dynamics that can poison your best plans
• Fixing what breaks along the way for continued improvement

Change is essential for a business to sustain growth regardless of industry, country, or organizational structure, but it cannot come from external goals. While the most important takeaways include how to identify and enable the people capable of driving change, by the end, you'll see that Mastering the Challenges of Leading Change starts with a change in yourself to discover why you do it.