Leading Culture Change

"Leading Culture Change: What Every CEO Needs to Know" is a practical guide for top leaders who are faced with the challenge of shaping their culture to create long-term, sustainable value. Culture is changeable - but only with CEO sponsorship and a methodical, best-practices approach. Author Christopher S. Dawson draws on his 25 years of experience as an organizational consultant in a variety of industries to delineate five critical success factors without which culture change is unlikely to occur. He offers numerous practical tools and methods to facilitate culture change in addition to an overall framework that acts as a yardstick for seasoned and new top leaders. The book provides a "Red-Yellow-Green" level of urgency tool to determine what degree of organizational effort is required to address the gap between strategy and culture, a culture change roadmap template, an overview and guidance for the key culture change levers, and more. After describing how to affect change, the text describes frequent culture change scenarios, providing guidelines, an in-depth case example, and practical lessons for top leaders who are faced with these common challenges. Finally, the book outlines four essential leadership competencies - Dual-Horizon Vision; Self-Awareness; Team Leadership; and Inspiring Others to Act - based on the requirements for the leaders of any transformation effort. This book is an ideal guide for today and tomorrow's top leaders - as well as a valuable supplement to management consultants' and human resource executives' professional training.