Business at the Speed of Now : Fire up Your People, Thrill Your Customers, and Crush Your Competitors.
Title:
Business at the Speed of Now : Fire up Your People, Thrill Your Customers, and Crush Your Competitors.
Author:
Bernard, John.
ISBN:
9781118175354
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Edition:
1st ed.
Physical Description:
1 online resource (258 pages)
Contents:
business at the speed of now -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Chapter 1 Thriving in the Now: Prepare for Yes -- Our Love of Speed -- The Power of Yes -- I Want My Yes Now! -- Social Media, Cloud Computing, and the Millennial Mind-Set -- Mass-Customize Me, Please! -- Enabling Your Organization's YESability -- The NOW Speedometer -- Chapter 2 Making the Shift to Now: Put an End to Then -- Shifting from Then to Now -- That Was Then, This Is Now -- The Seven Deadly Sins of Management -- From Declining to Improving Results -- The Right Tools in the Right Place at the Right Time -- From Disengaged to Engaged -- Chapter 3 Seizing the NOW Opportunity: Drive Growth with Yes -- When You Operate in the Now -- To Try or to Do, That Is the Question -- The 9 Rules of Then, the 11 Rules of Now -- Simon Says and Mother, May I? -- Shifting Gears to the Now -- Chapter 4 Leveraging the NOW Game Changers: Gain the Speed You Need -- Satisfying the Hunger for Instant Information -- A Cloud That Refreshes -- The Power of Millennial Thinking -- If You Can't Beat 'Em, Join 'Em -- Chapter 5 Working in the NOW Business: Create the Context for Speed -- Thinking in the Now -- Management Is a System -- Mapping the Fundamentals -- Laying the Foundation -- Connecting Every Employee -- Chapter 6 Working on the NOW Business: Achieve Critical Breakthroughs -- The Source of Breakthroughs -- Creating the Skill to Plan at All Levels -- Performance Breakthroughs in Action -- Breakthroughs in Capability -- Sequencing, Coordinating, and Seeing -- Chapter 7 Creating NOW Transparency: Close the Execution Gap -- Getting the Transparency Train on Track Initiating Transparency with -- Initiating Transparency with Business Reviews -- Preparing for Target Reviews -- Real-Time Transparency and Corrective Action.
Chapter 8 Solving Problems Now: Equip Everyone with the Core Skill -- Creating the Charter -- Step 1: Agree on the Problem -- Step 2: Map the Process -- Step 3: Find the Root Cause -- Step 4: Develop Solutions -- Step 5: Implement the Fix -- Step 6: Hold the Gain -- Step 7: Reflect and Learn -- Chapter 9 Enabling the NOW Workforce: Banish Fear, Build Trust -- People Want to Do the Right Thing -- Fear Blocks Initiative -- Building a Foundation for Trust -- Helping People Cross the Divide -- Shifting from Permit to Expect -- Chapter 10 Becoming a NOW Leader: Stop Bossing, Start Teaching -- From No to Yes -- From Disconnection to Full Engagement -- From Know-It-All to Fellow Learner -- From Frozen Layer to Fear Defroster -- From Commander to Inspirational Guide -- Creating New, Observable Behaviors -- Tell Me a Story -- Chapter 11 Embracing Change Now: Accelerate the Shift -- Working for the Social Good -- Sharing a Vision of the Future -- Engaging the Most Respected Change Leaders -- Encouraging Personal Change -- Reinforcing the Right Actions -- The End of the Beginning -- Conclusion Do It Now! -- Guidelines for an Effective Plan -- Appendix -- The NOW Speedometer: Doing Business at the Speed of Now -- About the Author -- Index.
Abstract:
A technology-enabled management philosophy to accelerate your organization Business at the Speed of Now delivers a new real-time management philosophy and system to leaders looking for better results in today's constantly changing market. Companies that inspire and equip employees and expect them to seize opportunities and solve problems in the now will enjoy a distinct competitive advantage in a world where speed matters most. Get systematic advice on how to build an integrated and transparent management system, enabled by cloud computing and internal social networks. Use this comprehensive guide to create a NOW organization where everyone boldly pursues every opportunity every time. The vast majority of businesses cling to a THEN management model and philosophy designed to prevent immediate action. In this practical handbook, you'll learn how to apply technology to the three essential types of work: Fundamentals (routine work that consumes 95 percent of all resources), Breakthroughs (initiatives that can change the game), and Problems (daily challenges and crises that occur in all organizations). Provides a wealth of real-world examples, assessments, tools, guidelines, and checklists that enable readers to apply the concepts immediately Offers practical tools for building accountability and transparency into every position, thereby eliminating the loose ends that so often cause business execution to stumble Presents the groundbreaking insights of John Bernard, an expert on management theory and practice, the use of social media inside the organization, and the modern workforce, whose company, Mass Ingenuity, consults around the world and develops Web-based tools to support real-time management Set your organization free from the old THEN management ways that no longer get the results you need. Adopt the new NOW management thinking and the
state-of-the-art tools that will get your organization doing business at the speed of now.
Local Note:
Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2017. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.
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