Introduction: Why Great Strategies and Change Initiatives Fail
Part 1: M = The Middle: Where Transformations Either Happen or Get Stuck
Chapter 1. The Beginning of the Middle: Why New Strategies Stall After the Exciting Kickoff
Chapter 2. Concrete Outcomes: Stop Admiring the Problem and Define Some Specific Actions
Chapter 3. Timing and Momentum: Maintaining a Sense of Urgency for a Long Time
Chapter 4. Control Points: Metrics that Drive Action on the Right Things
Chapter 5. Resource Reality: Your Strategy is Where You Put Your Resources
Chapter 6. Don't Sign Up for the Impossible
Chapter 7. Sponsors and Enemies: Reduce Your Personal Risk
Part 2: O = Organization: Are You Leading the Team You Have or the Team You Need?
Chapter 8. The Right Team: The Fundamental Ingredient for a Highly Effective Team
Chapter 9. Organize for Outcomes: Create the Ideal, Blank-sheet Org Chart
Chapter 10. The People: How to attract the right people and Eliminate the Wrong People
Chapter 11: Building Capacity: Performance Management and Delegating for Development
Chapter 12: Unstructured Conversation: How to Drive Personal Accountability and Belief
Chapter 13. Stop Having Status Meetings: Go Faster and Reduce Risk
Chapter 14: Virtual and Remote Teams: Optimizing Performance and Results from Afar
Chapter 15: Engagement and Context: Motivating People to Actually Care
Part 3: V= Valor: Facing the Hardest Stuff with Courage and Persistence
Chapter 16. Mission Impossible: Dealing with Obstacles, Fear, and Imposter Syndrome
Chapter 17. Burn the Ships at the Beach: How to Keep Moving Forward When No One Wants To
Chapter 18. Too Busy to Scale: Use Ruthless Priorities Enable Growth
Chapter 19. Detail: The Momentum Killer: Manage Outcomes Instead
Chapter 20. Clarity and Conflict: Expose and Master Necessary Conflict—Don't Avoid It
Chapter 21. Decision Stall: Accelerate Effective Decision Making
Chapter 22. Tracking & Consequences: How to Identify and Recover from Setbacks
Part 4: E=Everyone: You Can Lead a Transformation from the Top, But You Can't Do a Transformation from the Top
Chapter 23. Conversation: Change How You Communicate to Make Your Strategy Stick
Chapter 24: Decorate the Change: "Yes, We Are Really Doing This"
Chapter 25. Top Down Communications: Why People Do and Don't Listen
Chapter 26. Listen on Purpose: Finding the Insights that Makes You Brilliant
Chapter 27: Sharing Information: Communicating Across Organizational Silos
Chapter 28. Power & Trust: How to Make People Feel Like Super-Heroes
Acknowledgement
Resources
About the Author
Index
