Even the most well thought out initiatives will fail without true employee ownership, accountability, and engagement. Yet most managers and executives dont have a clear system for ensuring the support they need from those around them. The Power of Strategic Commitment helps readers improve their strategic processes by enlisting the support of managers, employees, boards, suppliers, investors, and others. The book outlines the key factors that determine commitment, providing powerful ways to build buy-in that cost nothing. Readers will discover how to: continuously measure buy-in involve everyone in creating their own piece of a larger organizational future tailor commitment strategies for individual employees keep everyone on the road to achieving stated goals create a commitment-inspiring rewards system hire fully-engaged talent This book provides practical methods for getting everyone behind the kind of important organizational actions that drive results.
CONTENTS
Acknowledgments
Introduction
Chapter 1: Why Commitment TrumpsCompliance
Why Commitment Is More Important Than Ever
Chapter 2: What Is Strategic Commitment?
If Its So Important, Why Dont I Know About It?
Chapter 3: Working Back from the Future
How to Generate Strategic Commitment
Chapter 4: Pushing Through the Thermal Layer
How to Engage Middle Managers in Strategic
Commitment
Chapter 5: Leading from the Front
Follow me! (Not, Ill Be There in a Minute .?.?.)
Chapter 6: Taking a StandThe Key to Strategic Commitment
Why the Aztecs Put a Stake in the Ground
Chapter 7: Building and Restoring Trust
Essential Competencies for Generating StrategicCommitment
Chapter 8: Return on Strategic Commitment
On Competitive Edge and Profit Margins
Chapter 9: Lead, Follow, or Get Out of the WayHR at the Crossroads
The Role of HR in Generating Strategic Commitment
Chapter 10: Strategic Commitment as Organizational Lifestyle
Integrating the Process into Organizational DNA
Chapter 11: The Diversity of Strategic Commitment
There Is No Such Thing as But Were Different
Afterword: Strategic Commitment IsEssential in Volatile Economies
Appendix: Tips, Techniques, and Tools for Generating, Monitoring, and
Addressing Setbacks Related to Strategic
Commitment
Index
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