The Executive Checklist: A Guide for Setting Direction and Managing Change [Hardcover]

A guide for new executives that explores how to create an overarching, enterprise-wide transformative program. The book provides a best-practice checklist for 8 core areas: Strategy Setting, Technology Alignment, Business Renovation, Project Management, Communications Renewal, Employee Engagement, Staff Transformation, and Organizational Design.Introduction 1. Establish Leadership The Foundation for Change 2. Build Trust A Vital Component of Enduring Achievement 3. Strategy Setting Translating Vision into Action 4. Engage Staff The Way to Gain Support and Accelerate Success 5. Manage Work through Projects A Means to Strategic Alignment 6. Renovate the Business A Way to Become 'of Choice' 7. Seamlessly Integrate Technology The Core to All We Do 8. Transform Staff The People Part of Enterprise-wide Change 9. Renew Communications Practices Transparency Improves Performance 10. Re-imagine the Organization The Expressway to the Future Postscript: A Bold Vision for Tomorrow's Organizations A Last Word About the Author

James Kerr's The Executive Checklist will not only help you achieve your goals, but make getting there far easier and less stressful. In operating rooms and airline cockpits checklists save lives, and this book may very well save your professional life. Put it at the top of your book buying checklist. August Turak, Forbes.com leadership contributor and Author of Business Secrets of the Trappist Monks

James Kerr's The Executive Checklist is, indeed, a great checklist for business executives a 'to do' list chock full of useful examples and wise advice. And we particularly like the fact that a number of Kerr's examples are bad examples: tales of managers or initiatives that were not successful. As business authors ourselves, we know how difficult it is to find these kinds of cases, which are usually even more instructive than the successes, and Kerr does a great job of tying the cases to his checklist of principles. The Executive Chl3F