Archive for March, 2008
By Michael Kanazawa
When things get stressful, we often throw out phrases automatically to try and get beyond the issues for the moment without really doing what is right. But often these phrases don’t do much to help in the moment and don’t solve the true issues either. There are a few sayings that we hear in business all of the time that are about as ineffective as parents yelling at their children, “do it because I said so.” Even worse, these sayings in business cause people to make poor decisions and undermine their own leadership potential by repeating these phrases without really thinking about what they mean.
One of the most popular and most damaging of these sayings is demanding that people need to do “more with less.” (more…)
BNET is featuring a podcast on BIG Ideas to BIG Results on it’s home page. In the podcast I explain to BNET host Carmine Gallo the most important things to getting started right with change or transformation efforts, why speed is important, and specifically how to engage hundreds or thousands of employees quickly and effectively with a very simple technique described in our book as “table work.”
To listen, download and share the podcast, please click through on the link below.
BNET’s Useful Commute
Guest: Michael Kanazawa - coauthor BIG Ideas to BIG Results
Host: Carmine Gallo
http://blogs.bnet.com/intercom/?p=1686
By: Michael Kanazawa
In the March 17th edition of BusinessWeek, on page 20, there is a picture of our book with Good to Great. And in that article you can see Jim Collins’ name appear with just two other authors being mentioned, Michael Kanazawa and Robert Miles. Not bad company for a book that has sold 3.6 million copies. It was truly exciting to be in such good company.
The article is based on the idea that top selling business books have something specific in common. They have red covers. But beyond the covers, the two books also drive for the same type of greatness in organizations. Jim Collins’ Good to Great identified the key ideas and principles through historical research. BIG Ideas to BIG Results shows exactly how to put a process in place and how to lead a great company. (more…)
By: Robert H. Miles, Ph.D.
A recent article in the Theory & Practice section of The Wall Street Journal raised the issue of the importance of Speed in management. Titled “Speed is Key Question as New CEOs Remake Team,” the piece reported that while management churn can be a problem, many CEOs wish they had moved faster in removing dysfunctional or non-supportive executives from their team.
This finding squares with my experience over many years from my corporate transformation practice, but it the tip of the iceberg, Speed a much bigger, more pervasive challenge to that the singular aspect highlighted in the article. It is multidimensional in its impact on the ultimate success or failure of corporate transformation attempts.
So multidimensional is the speed factor in execution that I call it the “New Management Discipline,” a theme that comes through strongly in my new book with Mike Kanazawa, BIG Ideas to BIG Results: Remake and Recharge Your Company, Fast. (more…)
By: Michael Kanazawa
Bob is co-author of BIG Ideas to BIG Results. Early in his career he taught at Harvard Business School, the Yale School of Management and the Stanford Executive Institute, was Dean of Faculty at the Emory School of Business, has written several books on corporate transformation, and is the father of the management area called macro-organizational behavior. For me, he has been a consultant, advisor, mentor and now a business partner and collaborator. But, some people don’t know Bob, at least as well as I do. But don’t go out and Google him. Let me tell you about Bob, who now serves as Chairman of Dissero Partners.
By the way, if you do Google Bob Miles, the first three hits are for a marine plumber, a musician and a realtor. Robert H. Miles will get you a lot of professional information about him, but let me tell you about the real Bob here instead - you won’t find this on the Internet. (more…)
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