Secure Early Wins
Low-hanging fruit trap
Low-hanging fruit trap
This trap catches leaders when they expend most of their energy seeking early wins that don't contribute to achieving their longer-term business objectives.
Plan Your Waves
Plan Your Waves
Each wave should consist of distinct phases:
- Learning
- Designing the changes
- Building support
- Implementing the changes
- Observing the results
Problematic Behavior Patterns - page 120
Problematic Behavior Patterns - page 120
Promising Basic Principles
Promising Basic Principles
- Focus on a few promising opportunities
- Get wins that matter to your manager
- Get wins in the right ways
- Take the STARS portfolio into account
- Adjust for the culture
Early Wins Evaluation Tool - page 129
Early Wins Evaluation Tool - page 129
FOGLAMP project checklist
FOGLAMP project checklist
- Focus: What is the focus for this project?
- Oversight: How will you oversee this project?
- Goals: What are the goals and the intermediate milestones and time frames for achieving them?
- Leadership: Who will lead the project?
- Abilities: What mix of skills and representation needs to be included?
- Means: What additional resources, such as facilitation, does the team need to be successful?
- Process: Are there change models or structured processes you want the team to use?
Avoiding Predictable Surprises
Avoiding Predictable Surprises
- The external environment
- Customers, markets, competitors, and strategy
- Internal capabilities
- Organizational politics