Executing Your Business Transformation: How to Engage Sweeping Change Without Killing Yourself Or Your Business

Practical real-world lessons for transforming any business

Based on the authors' decades of experience dealing with major business transformation, this book provides valuable guidance for any company contemplating mergers, acquisitions, or a major restructuring of your business model. Many organizations undergo transformation with lots of enthusiasm, but are frustrated with the results. This book contains a set of lessons gained in the process of working in and with organizations in the process of transformation. Some of the lessons include: The customer is always right except when they are not; What got you here may kill you there: There is no strategy when no one knows what to do; and Transforming strategy requires more than expensive software.

* Brings to light the central role of HR in transformation and why this is the biggest missing piece
* Provides insight into how and why mergers and acquisitions fail and what you can do about it
* Provides diagnostic questions and a set of recommendations for every lesson

With insight and candor, the authors provide thoughtful advice to leaders who recognize that the strengths of today's company will not translate into the results of tomorrow.