Mastering Leadership Alignment: Linking Value Creation to Cash Flow

This book raises the bar on what it means to be a high performance enterprise, providing methods and tools to engage the senior leadership team in building and sustaining rock-solid alignment. It demonstrates how to generate whole-hearted unanimity on precisely what creates value in the enterprise, who creates it, and how the value created shows up in the financial statements. Simple, step-by-step procedures given bring about whole-hearted unanimity in the senior leadership's understanding of how the enterprise makes money. Where to focus energy (and where not to) is revealed. Readers are guided to apply "non-directive leadership skills" to co-creating maps and reports of their enterprises' value creating activities into a Management Operating System (TM) (MOS). Based on more than 30 years and over 50 hands-on projects using the work of legendary IBM Executive School leader, finance and values innovator, Lou Mobley, and Chuck Kremer, CPA, this book builds on Lou's original breakthrough works building IBM's executive leadership culture.

Jahn Ballard is chief scientist at Management Resources, with nine real-world case studies. Jahn has invented and facilitated management operating system upgrades for dozens of enterprises (www.mosupgrade.com). A Technology of Participation (ToP) facilitator and trainer since 1987, since 1997, he has delivered Executive Finance for Operating Leaders to 1000 CFOs, controllers & CPAs. His mission is creating enterprising environments in which everyone gives their gifts. He knows whole-hearted unanimity gets straight to the heart of matters and can evaporate unnecessary human conflict.

Andrew Bargerstock, MBA, CPA, PhD, is a consultant and profes-sor in accounting, lean management, and business strategy. He is director of MBA programs and chair of the accounting department at Maharishi University of Management in Fairfield, IA and adjunct MBA faculty with Norwich University in Vermont. His professional career spans auditing, entrepreneurship, and corporate manage-ment. He is a certified lean management facilitator and two-time winner of the Lean Enterprise Institute's "Excellence in Lean Ac-counting Professor" award.