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Summary
Summary
The true heroes of transformation within organizations are not just CEOs, but managers who create energy, gain alignment, and solidify the will within the company to turn the strategic vision into reality. Shaping the Future provides how-to guidance - plus examples based on interviews with executives from companies like Boeing, Microsoft, Rockwell-Collins, and Harley-Davidson - to help businesses create a strongfuture. Rethinking many classic assumptions about change, Shaping the Future emphasizes the importance of making a single, critical change - the strategic imperative - rather than many smaller ones. The book presents a practical and unique Transformational Model, consisting of five key steps necessary to overcome resistance and effect large-scale change within an organization. Demonstrating an exciting new approach to an ever-more critical challenge, Shaping the Future provides thoughtful and tested guidance for true change leaders.
Author Notes
Steven R. Rayner is founder of the consulting and training firm Rayner & Associates.
Table of Contents
| Acknowledgments | p. xi |
| Introduction | p. 1 |
| Recognition of the Present | p. 1 |
| Developing a New Model | p. 2 |
| A Visualization of Tomorrow | p. 3 |
| The Need to Focus on a Single Point of Change | p. 4 |
| A Change Epidemic to Counter Resistance | p. 5 |
| A Breakthrough to Overcome Barriers | p. 6 |
| A Fellowship to Sustain Improvement | p. 8 |
| Part I. Managing in an Era of Profound Change | p. 11 |
| Chapter 1. The Megadigm: Confronting the Six Shifts of Change | p. 13 |
| The Megadigm | p. 14 |
| Intangible Quality: Engage in the Third Quality Revolution | p. 17 |
| "Infolocity": Work in Dog Time | p. 24 |
| Age of Value: Demonstrate a Great Value Proposition | p. 27 |
| Recognize the Obsolescence of Space | p. 31 |
| Coopetitive Advantage: Develop the Cooperative Competitor | p. 36 |
| Mass Uniqueness: The Great Customization Wave | p. 38 |
| The Mass Extinction of Most of Us | p. 41 |
| Chapter 2. A Destiny of Choice: Taking Steps that Matter | p. 47 |
| What Is Transformation? | p. 48 |
| The Pervasive Problem | p. 56 |
| What Is Required to Shape the Future | p. 63 |
| The Leader Within | p. 74 |
| Part II. Shaping the Future You Choose | p. 79 |
| Chapter 3. The Henry Response: Discovering the Leader Within | p. 81 |
| Halmet vs. Henry | p. 83 |
| The Disciplines of Leadership | p. 86 |
| A Final Thought | p. 107 |
| Chapter 4. The Simple View: Establishing the Bridge to the Future | p. 109 |
| Fog of Bureaucracy | p. 110 |
| A Detailed View of the Future | p. 115 |
| Boiling It All Down--The Strategic Imperative | p. 123 |
| The Discipline of a Drumbeat | p. 129 |
| Embracing Simplicity | p. 130 |
| Chapter 5. Acts of Counterresistance: Unleashing a Change Epidemic | p. 135 |
| Addicted to Corporate Culture | p. 137 |
| Imprinting a New Culture | p. 144 |
| The Teachable Moment | p. 146 |
| Epidemic Change | p. 155 |
| The Five Acts of Counterresistance | p. 165 |
| A Final Thought | p. 167 |
| Chapter 6. Breakthrough in Action: Destroying the Box of Complacency | p. 171 |
| Small Breakthroughs, Enormous Impact | p. 172 |
| Defining Breakthrough | p. 174 |
| The Breakthrough Discipline | p. 193 |
| Chapter 7. A Fellowship of Change Agents: Building Capability for the Long Haul | p. 195 |
| A Fellowship of Support | p. 197 |
| The Characteristics of a Transformation Fellowship | p. 201 |
| The Impact | p. 204 |
| Afterword | p. 207 |
| Shaping Tomorrow | p. 207 |
| A Difference in the Middle | p. 210 |
| A Return of the Entrepreneurial Spirit | p. 212 |
| A Future by Choice | p. 214 |
| Index | p. 217 |
