In this power-packed toolkit, Matejka and Murphy mix humor with meaning, theory with skill-building practicality, as they put the power to successfully plan for and implement any type of change initiative into the hands of employees at every level of today's team-based organizations.

The must-read summary of Ken Matejka and Al Murphy's book: "Making Change Happen: On Time, On Target, On Budget". This complete summary of the ideas from Ken Matejka and Al Murphy's book "Making Change Happen" shows that there is no one method that can always be used to implement change within an organisation, as there are too many variables involved. In their book, the authors have devised a systematic process for increasing your company's chances of success when trying to implement change. This summary explains the entire process in detail, making it easy for you to learn it and apply it to your own business. Added-value of this summary: • Save time • Understand key concepts • Expand your business knowledge To learn more, read "Making Change Happen" and use clear articulation and consultation to make changes successful.

Lean has come to healthcare, and it is really making waves. The potential of lean to find innovative, streamlined solution that enable improved organizational performance is undisputed. But Lean turns out to be very difficult to implement. This book can help you and your organization with the toughest challenge in Lean Healthcare full implementation of Lean projects to achieve concrete results. Top management will not spread Lean across their organizations based on Leans potential; the spread of Lean is dependent on the actural business value that management sees generated from Lean projects in their own organizations. The healthcare managers who will be successful in the worlds of today and tomorrow will be the ones who can look at waves of change and see opportunity; who can design a vision and strategy for a more positive future for their organizations; who can implement their designs; who can use Lean to continuously improve the performance of their organizations. You dont have to be afraid of change any longer! Dutchs work offers entertaining and simple solutions that will help you move swiftly and efficiently through the growing pains of organizational change, says Ken Blanchard, author of The Secret and The One Minute Manager.

Operational Policy Making for Professional Security: Practical Policy Skills for the Public and Private Sector is a clear, concise, and practical resource for drafting effective, legally defensible security policies. Presented in a clear, step-by-step style that can be tailored to fit the smallest organization to the largest, the book offers the strategies needed for reducing risk through solid policy construction. It is the first book available that provides a step-by-step guide to basic security policy construction, along with helpful hints on how to draft a document that conveys exactly what is intended. The book explores common policy creation pitfalls and how to avoid them, outlining proven methods for implementing and disseminating effective policies throughout any organization. Discussing the core security and safety policies that no organization should operate without, the book covers common types of policies, along with the pros and cons of different policy-making methodologies. It is a one-stop reference on functional security policy-making for organizational leaders. - User-friendly resource that guides readers through the entire policy-making process - Explores real-world solutions to common security policy issues - Outlines legally defensible policy suggestions - Provides analytical tools for assessing policies to ensure they are effective and lawful - Illustrates key concepts with case studies, and offers an appendix with samples that support concepts explored in each chapter

This book can help you and your organization prosper during these times of change in the healthcare industry. This book will show you how to excel at leading change, which is an absolute requirement for executive success and the only way that organizations will be able to not only survive but also thrive in the days ahead. The healthcare executives who are successful in the worlds of today and tomorrow will be the ones who can look at waves of change and see opportunity; who can design a vision and strategy for a more positive future for their organization; and who can implement their designs on target, on time, and on budget by capitalizing on the strengths of their organizations and their bright and dedicated associates who are devoted to perfect healthcare. You dont have to be afraid of change any longer! Dutchs work offers entertaining and simple solutions that will help you move swiftly and efficiently through the growing pains of organizational change, says Ken Blanchard, author of The Secret and The One Minute Manager.

This updated and revitalized edition is a unique primer on how successful strategists learn to think strategically. This authoritative book traces the history of strategy, differentiates strategic thinking from strategic planning, describes the influence of culture, streamlines the roles of rationality and intuition and identifies five key attributes for learning to thinking strategically.

With 70% of change projects not meeting management expectations, can we conclude that the current way of doing change management works well (or even works at all)? Do we need a New Way to make organizational change happen? Yes, it is time. This book identifies ten new ways that can be used to make change management more effectively and efficiently. One of the ten ways is the use of the theater metaphor. If you want to change a play, you must start by selecting and communicating a new script to your theater company. If you want to change an organization, you must start by communicating to organization members a new vision of where the organization needs to be at some future time. If you want to change the play, you must put actors under contract for the new play and rehearse them until they can perform their roles perfectly. If you want to change an organization, workers must be under agreement to perform to new job descriptions and goals and be trained in new work processes and new technology. And so it goes Using your life-long familiarity with the idea of a "play, you will be able to make organizational change happen flawlessly. This book will show you how to excel at leading change, from either a management position or from an assignment as a change professional. This book is designed to put managers and change professionals "on the same page for leading change, using simple practical ideas and metaphors, backed by proven bodies of knowledge from management, the behavioral sciences and the theater. "You dont have to be afraid of change any longer! Dutchs work offers entertaining and simple solutions that will help you move swiftly and efficiently through the growing pains of organizational change. Ken Blanchard, author of The Secret and The One Minute Manager.

THE NEW PARADIGM FOR CHANGE: ONE ORGANIZATION WITH TWO MANAGEMENT SYSTEMS Todays business organization must Run-the-Business to hit this years profit targets and simultaneously Change-the-Business to be able to hit next years profit targets. In the new change paradigm, an organization must have both a Run-the-Business Management System and a parallel Change-the-Business Management System. This book focuses on the Change-the-Business System, called Organizational Project Management (OPM), that continuously performs: Visioning: Designing better futures for the organization Portfolio Management: Allocating resources to create capabilities for the futures Program Management: Leading initiatives to build capabilities Project Management: Using best minds to design capabilities. Change Engineering: Integrating capabilities into operations.

The Future Belongs to the Digital Engineer By Dutch Holland and Jim Crompton The Digital Engineer will be a person with knowledge and skill in the use of engineering and digital technology to enable major process improvements and performance increases in both physical and business operations. New engineers today enter the workforce with high digital literacy, in addition to their qualifications in traditional disciplines. The challenge is to turn new professionals into Digital Engineers who bring value to the business. Jim Crompton, with his coauthor Dutch Holland, has clearly shown us how to bring historically-disconnected skills, organizations and technologies together to drive competitive advantage. This book needs to be on every upstream business persons digital bookshelf. Peter J. Robertson, former Vice Chairman of the Board, Chevron Corporation

This book can help you and your organization tackle the most complex organizational change and produce a change success. How? How do you eat an elephant? One bite at a time. How do you successfully execute a large organization change? One project at a time. This book will enable you to break organizational changes into discrete change projects that can be managed on target, on time and on budget. This book will show you how to excel at leading change, which is an absolute requirement for organizational and personal success. The managers who are successful in the worlds of today and tomorrow will be the ones who can lead change: who can look at waves of change and see opportunity; who can design a vision and strategy for a more positive future for their organizations; and who can implement their designs by completing change projects – on target, on time, and on budget. “You don’t have to be afraid of change any longer! Dutch’s work offers entertaining and simple solutions that will help you move swiftly and efficiently through the growing pains of organizational change,” says Ken Blanchard, author of The Secret and The One Minute Manager.