High Performance Managerial Leadership: Best Ideas from around the World

Learn how managers have transformed their teams and companies into envied high-performance organizations in this guide to nurturing successful managers at your organization informed by the authors 10-year study of applications of his High Performing Organization (HPO) Framework.How can an organization learn to perform at a high level? The key is management. Based on years of intensive research and experience André de Waals proven strategy for achieving positive organizational change can turn your company or team into a true High Performance Organization (HPO).De Waals HPO Framework is the only management improvement technique that has been developed on a solid scientific basis validated through longitudinal site-level research and developed over years of measuring organizational results. In this book de Waal focuses on the activities and behaviors of managers in organizations that have successfully transformed themselves into HPOs. The author and his team closely followed and measured organizations that have adopted and applied the HPO Framework over many years uncovering the secrets to creating successful and transformative managers through the use of HPO coaches the application of silo-busting techniques to spur collaboration and use of the HPO transformation success wheel.The resulting data set analytics and lessons presented represent a treasure trove of actionable tools for achieving successful managerial and organizational change and improvement.Leads readers through the process of successfully starting and completing organizational changeFinds background in the five HPO Framework Principles: Discipline Speed (in communication decision-making action-taking) Constant Self-Improvement Focus (external and internal) and Creative and Fact-Based Decision-Making Draws parallels between these principals and their underlying 35 measurement characteristics diagnostic tools and the authors insight from 20+ years of leading organizational changePairs each of the authors five HPO Framework Principles with an accompanying technique and a case study to show the principlesPresents the HPO Diagnosis a critical tool for companies to evaluate their current performance and identify areas in their organization that need to be strengthened for the company to become an HPO