Change on the Run: Competing through e-Leadership - Hardcover

Kay, Michael

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0471645192 ISBN 13: 9780471645191

Publisher: Wiley, 2000

Synopsis

Change on the Run
Leading a transformation can make or break your career. But business in the e-world is in constant, rapid flux powered by technolgy and globalizing markets, and every leader-- without exception-- will be faced with managing a major change at some time. Everyone is at risk. E-world leadership is transformational leadership and this book is about the six keys to winning in this turbulent world. Change on the Run: Competing Through e-Leadership provides hands-on guidance you will need when you face those make-or-break opportunities.
-- from the Introduction to Change on the Run

About this title

About the Author

Michael Kay is a senior member of PricewaterhouseCoopers' Strategic Change Practice in Toronto. Mr. Kay is a consultant with decades of experience helping major corporations manage through complex transformations.

He is the co-author of Toppling the Pyramids: Redefining the Way Companies are Run, and is featured in and co-producer of the bestselling Power of Change: The Management Revolution video series, used in companies and universities worldwide. He is the designer of Fastrac: The Strategic Transformation Game, Change on the Run: The CEO Game, and other games and transformation experiences for clients.

He is a frequent speaker on change and change management, and is the author of numerous articles on the topic, which have appeared in a variety of publications in Europe, Japan, and North America.

From the Inside Flap

All firms have been through significant transformation in the last two decades, but the pace will continue to increase in the emerging world of e-business. So how do companies win in the race to change?

Leaders in the e-world will use the ability to transform their organizations as an offensive competitive weapon, no longer just changing in reaction to events, but actively seeking to create even more turbulence and to upset their compititors. There are strong indications that this is just what firms such as Cisco are attempting to do.

To conduct an offensive change strategy, or even to survive in such a world, leaders and managers throughout the organization must have transformation skills as a fundamental part of their kit bag. Change on the Run: Competing Through e-Leadership shows how to create a cadre of individuals who are ready, willing, and able to take on the career challenge of running a significant change in a turbulent environment.

But you cannot stop the world while you change the business. Successful transformational leaders are able to manage all-encompassing change while keeping the business running at full tilt. How do they do it? Change on the Run explains how to apply six key leadership skills that drive extraordinary results in the turbulent e-busines world.

• Get the 60 percent premium enjoyed by firms skilled in complex change, by applying appropriate approaches to different types of change.
• Make profits resilient to turbulence and maintain shareholder value while managing disruption.
• Speed up communication and results, even saving up to 50 percent in total time elapsed for implementation of your strategic vision.
• Learn how to harness the market-facing experiences of every individual, crucial to fast-moving, knowledge-intensive e-business.
• Build critical change agent skills throughout the organization, eliminating the top problem in making change happen.
• Embed leadership practices that have saved major corporations billions of dollars.

More than a book, Change on the Run is also an electronic experience. Go to www.changeontherun.com to start to experience the transformation to the e-world. The website features:

• Change on the Run: The CEO Game, an e-game in which players transform their virtual business as they compete in the marketplace. This head-to-head competitive experience played in real time teaches holistic concepts such as business strategy in a memorable and intensely engaging way.
• Links to the web-based, comprehensive, benchmarked leadership practices inventory mentioned in the book. This tool will help you build strong leadership skills throughout your organization.
• Other ideas that will help you think about transformational issues.

Edition details

• Publisher: Wiley
• Publication date: 2000
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0471645192
• ISBN 13: 9780471645191
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 374