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 BIG Ideas to BIG Results
Remake and Recharge Your Company, Fast
by Michael T. Kanazawa and Robert H. Miles
Publisher: Financial Times – FT Press
Date: March 2008
ISBN: 978-0-13-234478-4
Copyright © 2008 by Michael T. Kanazawa and Robert H. Miles. All rights reserved.
Why do most executive leaders fail to achieve breakthrough performance? They make things too complex. They clutter the company with jargon. They dither on the launch pad. They hire too many consultants, chase too many fads.
It doesn’t have to be that complicated.
A NO-NONSENSE, STEP-BY-STEP, RESULTS-DRIVEN APPROACH TO DRIVING BUSINESS TRANSFORMATION AND BREAKTHROUGH PERFORMANCE.
 Drawing on the foundations laid in the highly innovative program Miles chaired at the Harvard Business School, and continuing with his experience in working with Kanazawa and with hundreds of senior executives, the authors show how to align your organization behind just a few core initiatives, bias your organization your organization toward speed, create leaders at every level, and achieve traction and accountability in all facets of execution. You’ll learn how to engage people instead of frustrating them, and harness their energy instead of wasting it.
Whether you’re executing a new initiative, restoring your company’s growth, entering a new market, or attempting to transform your enterprise, this book will help you find the right path, clear the obstacles, and get to breakthrough performance – safely and quickly.
"Their Clear Hands-on Approach..."
"It takes more than a vision to launch a successful corporate strategy. It takes engagement on the part of employees at all levels. Establishing such engagement is at the heart of this punchy, dynamic book by Kanazawa and Miles...
Fewer than half of employees, according to a quoted poll understand their company's strategic goals and only 43% think there is ever any follow-through on planned strategy shifts. This is why the authors assert, so many corporate initiatives fail. After seeing the process break down countless times, Kanazawa and Miles developed a step-by-step guide to harnessing the energy that companies usually waste when introducing initiatives. By creating more of a "'buy-in' throughout the organization through accountability, employees become committed to company goals, they claim.
Their clear and hands-on approach is useful for anyone whose livelihood is tied to the successful execution of business initiatives."
- Linda Bennami
Publishers Weekly
"An Innovative Organizational Process that Produces Result Every Year"
"Leaders of organizations would be wise to follow the advice of Michael Kanazawa and Robert Miles in their excellent new book entitled BIG Ideas to BIG Results. The book lays out their ACT process for organizations that want to implement three to four initiatives each year...Kanazawa and Miles' s ACT process works in part because it helps meet universal human needs for respect, recognition, belonging, autonomy, and personal growth and meaning. When these needs are met, people thrive, individually and collectively.
Strong leaders will recognize many of the best practice steps that are part of ACT. What makes this book valuable is the way the authors integrate the best practices into a step by-by-step process and add ideas of their own. I especially liked their descriptions of annual high engagement cascades with tablework and quarterly mini-cascades. Its worth buying the book just to learn more about these practices alone.
BIG Ideas to BIG Results will be popular with corporate leaders. It's a quick and easy read with a process that is practical to implement and will help move organizations from identifying big ideas to producing big results. Congratulations to Kanazawa and Miles for developing an important new contribution to process innovation and describing it in an accessible way."
-Michael Lee Stallard
Principal, E Pluribus Partners
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