The Journey to Improved Business Performance

Title: The Journey to Improved Business Performance
Author: Steve Thomas
ISBN: 0831133635 / 9780831133634
Format: Soft Cover
Pages: 296
Publisher: Industrial Press
Year: 2008
Availability: Out of Stock

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Written in a very engaging manner, this book teaches the essential concepts associated with change management in a highly unique manner. It is not a textbook, but rather a business novel in which the main character, Todd Bradley struggles to learn the skills necessary to save his company, his plant, and in many ways himself. While the storyline is fictional account about business change made in a plant environment, readers will quickly realize that the tools found here can be successfully applied in all lines of business. Anyone working to make a change for the better in their business will benefit from this book.

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Written in a way that readers can quickly apply the knowledge gained.

Features all of the concepts taught in the author's first two books-Successfully Managing Change in Organizations and Improving Maintenance & Reliability Through Cultural Change.

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Preface

Chapter 1 : Welcome to My World
Chapter 2 : Out of the Frying Pan Into the Fire
Chapter 3 : Life Gets More Interesting
Chapter 4 : The Vision and More Takes Shape
Chapter 5 : The Meeting
Chapter 6 : The Steering Team
Chapter 7 : The Goal Achievement Model
Chapter 8 : Line #3 Goes Down - Again
Chapter 9 : A New Role Model Is in Town
Chapter 10 : There are Outcomes and Impacts for Everything
Chapter 11 : Address Resistance
Chapter 12 : Learning and the Danger of Assumptions
Chapter 13 : The Web of Change and C-RCFA
Chapter 14 : The Visit
Chapter 15 : The End Game
Chapter 16 : Epilog

Appendix 1 : Todd’s Web of Change
Appendix 2 : The Change Root Cause Failure Analysis