Creating Excellence

<p><em>Creating Excellence</em>, first published in 1984, proposes a rational yet visionary blend of approaches for a winning, strategy-driven culture that can provide you and your company with the confidence that gets results. </p><p>Based on a programme of six essential leadership skills – vision, sensitivity, insight, versatility, focus, and patience – this step-by-step blueprint for organisational excellence shows the New Age Executive exactly how to: </p><ul> <p> </p> <li>Know your firm’s capabilities – and make the most of them</li> <p> </p> <li>Motivate your people to peak performance</li> <p> </p> <li>Respond positivity to change from within and without</li> <p> </p> <li>Develop long-term goals and see them through</li> <p> </p> <li>And turn crisis into opportunity</li> </ul><p>All these principles are illustrated with fascinating case studies of the most spectacular successes and failures in the history of American enterprise. In addition, hands-on ‘exercises’ will enable you to test their application to the concerns of your own organisation. </p><p>Whether you work for a small business or a vast conglomerate, in a hot new industry or a mature, stable environment, <i>Creative Excellence </i>can help make you the most important corporate asset of the eighties – and beyond. </p> <p>Acknowledgments; Preface; <b>Part One: The Foundation of Excellence</b>; 1. Creating Excellence: Toward a New Age Renaissance 2. On Becoming a Strategic Thinker 3. On Becoming a Culture Builder 4. Matching Strategy and Culture; <b>Part Two: Six Skills for New Age Executives</b>; 5. Creative Insight: Asking the Right Questions 6. Sensitivity: Doing unto Others 7. Vision: Creating the Future 8. Versatility: Anticipating Change 9. Focus: Implementing Change 10. Patience: Living in the Long Term; <b>Part Three: Creating Excellence</b>; 11. Start-Up: Originating Strategy and Culture 12. Growth: Holding Strategy and Culture Together 13. Crisis: Radically Altering Strategy and Culture 14. Evolution: Fine-Tuning Strategy and Culture; Bibliography; Index</p>