The Critical Few

The Critical Few

Title: The Critical Few
Author: Jon R. Katzenbach, James Thomas & Gretchen Anderson
Release: 2019-01-16
Kind: ebook
Genre: Management & Leadership, Books, Business & Personal Finance
Size: 1743735
In a global survey by the Katzenbach Center, 80 percent of respondents believed that their organization must evolve to succeed. But a full quarter of them reported that a change effort at their organization had resulted in no visible results. Why?

The fate of any change effort depends on whether and how leaders engage their culture: the self-sustaining patterns of behaving, feeling, thinking, and believing that determine how things are done in an organization. Culture is implicit rather than explicit, emotional rather than rational--that's what makes it so hard to work with, but that's also what makes it so powerful.

For the first time, this book lays out the Katzenbach Center's proven methodology for identifying your culture's four most critical elements: traits, characteristics that are at the heart of people's emotional connection to what they do; keystone behaviors, actions that would lead your company to succeed if they were replicated at a greater scale; authentic informal leaders, people who have a high degree of "emotional intuition" or social connectedness; and metrics, integrated, thoughtful measures to track progress, encourage the self-reinforcing cycle of lasting change and link to business performance.

By leveraging these critical few elements, you can tap into a source of catalytic change within your organization. People will make an emotional, not just a rational, commitment to new initiatives. You will elicit enthusiasm and creativity and build the kind of powerful company that people recognize for its innate value and effectiveness.

More Books from Jon R. Katzenbach, James Thomas & Gretchen Anderson

Harvard Business Review, Daniel Goleman, Jon R. Katzenbach, W. Chan Kim & Renée A. Mauborgne
Harvard Business Review, Jon R. Katzenbach, Kathleen M. Eisenhardt & Lynda Gratton
Jon R. Katzenbach & Douglas K. Smith
Harvard Business Review, Adam Grant, Boris Groysberg, Jon R. Katzenbach & Erin Meyer
Jon R. Katzenbach & Zia Khan
Jon R. Katzenbach & Douglas K. Smith
Jon R. Katzenbach & Zia Khan
Jon R. Katzenbach, James Thomas & Gretchen Anderson