Pivot, Disrupt, Transform - How Leaders Beat the Odds and Survive

In this powerful and provocative business how-to, Marcia Daszko uses her decades of experience as an adviser to hundreds of executives, many from Fortune 500 companies, to inspire bold new ways of thinking about leadership. Geared towards leaders at any level, Pivot, Disrupt, Transform provides a three-step action plan for leaders to STOP old ways of thinking, START innovating, and TRANSFORM themselves, their teams, and their organizations.

List of contents

Part One: What Leaders Must Recognize and Stop Doing and Why

1. Recognize and Stop Focusing on the Numbers, the Bottom Line

2. Recognize and Stop Setting Individual Goals and Holding Them Accountable

3. Recognize and Stop Conducting Performance Appraisals

4. Recognize and Stop Getting Poor Results

5. Recognize and Stop Searching for Best Practices

6. Recognize and Stop Creating Ineffective Mission Statements

7. Recognize and Stop Creating Roadmaps

8. Recognize and Stop Using a Language of Failure

Part Two: What Leaders Must Start Thinking and Doing

9. Start Developing Essentials for the Foundation to Grow

10. Start Developing Leaders Who Transform

11. Start Creating An Inter-connected Team

12. Start Understanding how to Make Bold Decisions

13. Start Seeking Knowledge through Questions

14. Start Understanding People

15. Start Transforming not Merely Changing

16. Start Discerning Among the Three Different Types of Change

Part Three: Where Do We Begin to Transform?

17. An Urgent Truth

18. The Code for Bold Change

19. The Old Way vs. the Better Way of Managing

20. The Pivotal, Powerful Strategic Compass for Survival

21. Assess Where You Will Begin Your Journey

About the author

Marcia Daszko is one of the world’s leading business strategists and catalysts for leadership and organizational transformation. She believes and teaches innovation in leadership thinking. She has 25 years of proven success as a Founder and CEO of a consulting firm, Marcia Daszko & Associates, and is an executive team workshop facilitator. In addition, she is a researcher and graduate level teacher, a keynote speaker, an award-winning writer and communicator, and an executive advisor to Fortune 500 corporations; government agencies and the Pentagon; educational institutions; and global non-profit organizations.

Summary

When the status quo no longer works, the contrarian perspective reigns!

In this innovative business how-to, leadership expert Marcia Daszko draws on her expertise to guide leaders at any level through a process to radically improve their businesses: first, recognize and stop outmoded ways of thinking that fail to move the business forward (like focusing on the bottom line, conducting performance appraisals, and searching for best practices); second, start taking steps to introduce new, innovative ways of thinking and contrarian practices (such as developing leaders with the capacity to effect change, creating an interconnected team, and seeking knowledge through questions); and finally, transform your company into a more resilient, adaptive, and united organization.

Recent studies have reported that 90% of start-ups will fail. In Silicon Valley alone, this means that more than 5,400 of the current 6,000 startups will flounder and disappear. But risky and cash-strapped start-ups are not the only corporate fatalities: More than 60% of the original Fortune 500 corporations no longer exist. Given these statistics, how can organizational leaders and their employees beat the odds and survive? The only solution is to question the usual business practices, re-think how to lead and inspire, challenge the accepted beliefs, and toss out the failures to accelerate business growth and profitability. Using Marcia's three-part stop, start, transform method, readers will learn to pursue significant untapped opportunities, achieve their organization's competitive edge, and pivot, disrupt, and adapt to unexpected levels of success.

Foreword

- Print and e-ARC distribution to trade and consumer media, both traditional and online.
- PR campaign with print, radio, and digital interview targets
- Targeted outreach to business and leadership organizations, websites, and publications
- Nominate book for merchandising placement on Safari, Trendhunter, and others.

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"Full of counterintuitive advice, Pivot, Disrupt, Transform will shake up your thinking about what it takes to be a leader. Use its self-assessments to find your place in the journey. Use its tools to reroute your path to success.” - Daniel H. Pink, author of Drive and To Sell is Human

"Pivot, Disrupt, Transform is a refreshingly honest guide for leaders in today’s world. Marcia Daszko will not just shake up some of your long-held beliefs about leadership—she will also inspire your thinking and move you to positive action. This book is a life changer for organizations everywhere."- Ken Blanchard, co-author of The New One Minute Manager and One Minute Mentoring

“Leaders’ choice: struggle and fail or succeed. Pivot, Disrupt, Transform provokes the strategic thinking needed to discover why some fail while others innovate and scale. Read it today and choose more wisely.” -Colonel Debra M. Lewis, USA Ret. West Point Pioneer, Positivity & Mental Toughness Expert

"I found Pivot, Disrupt, Transform to be a very refreshing, provocative, and sometimes contrarian read.  Having been an executive in a very traditionally structured, management-by-objective driven, manufacturing industry a key take-away for me was that the business practices, processes, and disciplines that have made us successful in the past, will not necessarily guarantee our continued future success.  This is a story about transformation and disruption, about recognizing and embracing change rather than ignoring and resisting it.  This book fully recognizes the immense generation shift taking place with millennials, and accepts that what influences and motivates them is significantly different than any generation that preceded them.  Most importantly, the book provides actionable tools to help drive this change.  This is an important read for anyone really interested in developing a highly functioning and modern business organization." -Dave Zuchowski, President of Hyundai, 2007-2017

“This book helps to see that leadership is a choice, not a birthright, destiny, or even an obligation – and that life, professionally and organizationally, really begins a step beyond the edges of our comfort zones.  Filled with sage advice about taking the roads less traveled, looking at the status quo from new perspectives, and embarking on the path that will make the difference between a well-run bankruptcy and prosperity.” - Barry Z. Posner, bestselling author of The Leadership Challenge

 “As the challenge of global competition accelerates, today’s leaders search for fresh and concrete approaches that motivate their markets and delight their employees. Marcia Daszko provides a clear and much-needed path that starts with knowledge and leads to enthusiastic commitment in work and genuine satisfaction through dramatically improved collaboration with customers, partners , and employees.  Those who seek a better way to create success across their enterprise by applying courage, understanding and purpose will find Marcia’s book of great and immediate value.” - Vice Admiral Kevin P. Green, USN, VP of IBM (Ret.)

“So often, managers and leaders find themselves in seriously uncharted waters. What seemed to have worked in the past doesn’t and it’s at that point where they recognize the need to do something different; they just don’t know what different is. This book is an exceptional resource that will help leaders better understand how real leadership works; how to become comfortable with disruptive change; and how to create that change and thereby create your future. The alternative is to throw random solutions (i.e., best practices) at problems and hope for the best. If you’re looking to open your mind to alternative understanding, this book is for you.” - Dr. Kenneth M. Macur, President, Medaille College, NY

“This book deeply entices you to learn and turn around your thoughts and actions. You will see and experience the power of transformational change! Get on board and enjoy the ride!" - Kenji Furushiro, President, Pasona N. A.

"Marcia Daszko’s insights go beyond the obvious to root causes.  Many problems in corporations and businesses could be alleviated by a true understanding of what Marcia has to offer in her latest book.  W. Edwards Deming said it and those who understood prospered.  Marcia continues the work." - Priscilla Petty, Interviewer and Producer, The Deming of America

Product details

• Authors: Marcia Daszko
• Publisher: Ingram Publishers Services
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.10.2018
• EAN: 9781635764741
• ISBN: 978-1-63576-474-1
• No. of pages: 232
• Dimensions: 152 mm x 228 mm x 21 mm
• Weight: 393 g
• Illustrations: Illustrationen, nicht spezifiziert
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Business > Management; BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Decision-Making & Problem Solving, BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Leadership, BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Development / Business Development, Management: leadership & motivation, Management: leadership and motivation