Provides organizational development (OD) professionals with a unique eight-part framework to inspire improved business performance Links business performance explicitly to purpose and presents the evidence for the better performance of purpose-driven organizations Provides activities, case studies, diagnostic tests, research reports, articles and book reviews at the end of each chapter to work through and validate learning
Clive Wilson is a board director at Primeast, a UK-based consultancy that has facilitated purposeful leadership, organisational effectiveness and high-performance teamwork since 1987. Primeast works internationally with a focus on the oil and gas, power, pharmaceutical and technology sectors as well as with change agents and social entrepreneurs. Clive is a Fellow and Tutor for the Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development and a Fellow and Ambassador for the Chartered Management Institute. In recent years, with his passion for purposeful change, he has facilitated workshops on strategic alignment and talent leadership in Europe, Africa, Asia, the Americas, the Middle East and Australia.
"I've spent many very enjoyable hours with Clive, discussing
people, their talent, their lives and their work and I've always
been impressed by his passion for the inseparable interrelationship
of these. In this book, Clive describes the inseparable nature of
different aspects of organizations and the people who work in them.
He describes the contrasting but complementary perspectives of head
and heart and takes us on a series of journeys from the conceptual
to the practical. Great examples and metaphors help ground the
learning (the fractal geometry of cellular development is a
particular favourite - yes, really). It's a book that is always
interesting and always useful with exercises and techniques to
support your organization development journey. For me, the book's
greatest gift is to guide the reader to ask the most powerful
questions of their organization and themselves."
*Dave Rippon, ValueStrengths (formerly Head of Organisation
Development, Sunderland City Council)*
"The guidance on how to help an organization get to the 'why' of
its existence and be able to synergize the perspectives of multiple
stakeholder views into an integrated purpose is inspirational [...]
This book is a direct reflection of the calibre of expertise,
insight and intensity that Clive and the Primeast team bring to
their professional work."
*Kelly Goff, Global Organizational Effectiveness Director at
Raytheon*
"This superb book delivers a magnitude of relevant information on a
timely topic and provides a roadmap to understanding how to inspire
business performance beyond boundaries. As Clive says,"Purposeful
people make purposeful organizations, families, communities and
nations". I was instantly smitten by the expertise and insightful
information as well as the richness of the tools, activities, case
studies and resources. Anyone charged with leading change
organizations will find the information relevant and useful. Anyone
who truly wants to make a difference in their workplace or
community will find the information inspiring."
*Debbie Richards, President, Creative Interactive Ideas and
President 2013 ASTD Houston*
"If you are looking to gain some energy and focus in pulling
together a strategy or change management plan for your department
or business, then picking up this book would be a good start. What
you will gain is a professional review of over 40 years of insight
in the success that some organisations have achieved by clearly
defining their purpose and vision for their business. The tricky
part in any strategy is understanding of how you get from purpose
to performance. This book makes some simple definition of steps
ensuring that you have a framework to follow. Perhaps the best
recommendation I can offer is that if like me you allow yourself
your guilty pleasure of marking and highlighting sections of
management books with pen and post in notes then you will be
pleased to leave it suitably defaced and plastered with tabs."
*Alex Spence, Group HR Director, Cape*
"Wilson is to be commended on his brilliant use of reader-friendly
devices that include directly relevant mini-case studies,
implementation activities, and sets of '10 Questions' that serve as
assessments of purpose, vision, engagement, structure, character,
results, success, and talent. ...Provides just about everything
that you and your colleagues need to 'inspire business performance
beyond boundaries."
*Robert Morris, bobmorris.biz*
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