The Forward-Focused Organization : Visionary Thinking and Breakthrough Leadership to Create Your Company's Future

by Stephen C. Harper

Business success demands more than taking the road less traveled. It requires creating new roads and committing to future-focused breakthrough leadership. For busy managers, this timely book provides a direct and robust plan of action. It blends proven ideas from leading-edge thinkers with the author's original, hands-on approach to change management. The Forward-Focused Organization shows how to move beyond kiss-of-death incremental change toward a corporate/entrepreneurial ("corpreneurial") environment that takes fast, giant steps into the future. Readers will learn how to adopt "ASAP management": the ability to anticipate what's ahead, develop the agility to operate in an accelerating marketplace, and identify opportunities before competitors do. Rich in useful examples from traditional companies and dot-coms, this book covers every strategic and operational concern that change managers should be thinking about. On a humorously cautionary note, it also recaps "100 Ways to Self-Destruct as a Change Leader" and "100 Ways to Lose Customers.

259 pages, Hardcover

First published January 1, 2001