|
Managers keep searching for the sure-fire
change and improvement path, but following the trendy and
popular routes often leads them over a cliff or into dead-end
canyons. Cutting through the buzzwords and theories comes
Pathways to Performance: a guide to help you, your
team and your organization blaze your own successful way
to high performance.
Consultant and bestselling author Jim Clemmer
outlines an array of practical ideas, steps and routes that
will inspire and instruct your transformation efforts. You'll
see why you can't build a team or organization that's different
from you. You'll learn how to pull together personal effectiveness,
leadership development and organizational improvement. Pathways
to Performance is loaded with hundreds of practical
how-to points ("Pathways and Pitfalls") in two
parallel paths -- strategies for team or organization improvement
along with their complementary techniques for personal transformation.
Topics include:
- Wandering Off the Improvement Trail:
The Deadly Dozen Failure Factors
- The High-Performance Balance: Managing
Things, Leading People
- Self-Leadership: It All Starts with You
- The Big Picture: A Map to Improvement
Pathways and Passages
- Focus and Context: Vision, Values and
Purpose
- Innovation and Organizational Learning
- Establishing Goals and Priorities, Getting
Organized and Managing Time
- Improvement Planning and Implementation
- Change Checkpoints and Improvement Milestones
Pathways to Performance blends personal
and professional experiences with extensive research, insightful
quotations, dollops of humor and simple conceptual models.
This easy-to-read, comprehensive book shows you how to improve
yourself in step with the changes you're making to your
team or organization -- propelling you and your organization
down the path of truly effective improvement.
Jim Clemmer is the author of Firing
on All Cylinders: The Service/Quality System for High-Powered
Corporate Performance. He co-founded The Achieve Group
and Achieve International, now owned by Zenger-Miller Inc.,
a Times-Mirror Training company. He is now president of
The Clemmer Group Inc., a firm providing strategic consulting,
education and training, executive development and improvement
tools for personal, team and organization transformation.
Jim is also a contributor to the Globe and Mail's
"Change Page."
|
