Driving Results
Six Lessons Learned From Transforming An Iconic Company
by Gary A. Garfield
Company turnarounds are no easy feat. Nor is it easy to successfully drive significant change. Studies have shown that over two-thirds of all change efforts fail. Dysfunctional and entrenched corporate cultures, leadership problems and other issues so often doom transformation efforts and a leader’s agenda.
In Driving Results: Six Lessons Learned from Transforming an Iconic Company, veteran executive Gary A. Garfield delivers an inspiring and actionable blueprint for business change and transformation that is as hands-on as it is original. In the book, you’ll explore the six key elements necessary to successfully drive change in any organization, department, or team: leadership, vision, culture, people, alignment, and focused execution.
Garfield draws on his extensive experience at an iconic American company to inform his singularly effective approach. His laser-focus on the six key elements of change enables you to overcome all obstacles to your change effort, and allows you to implement the strategies you need to achieve the results you want.
Driving Results relies on startling insights into dysfunctional organizations, what makes them tick, and how to get them back on track. It also explains in specific detail how to sell the changes that need to be made across the organization and then how to implement those changes in ways that guarantee your vision will become a reality.
A must-read compilation of thought- provoking and practical strategies for enabling dramatic change in any organization, department or group, Driving Results is the hands-on business transformation blueprint that executives and managers have been waiting for.
Praise for Driving Results
“Driving Results is an inspiring and practical book about leading change one of the world’s most iconic companies.
The wisdom inside offers a blueprint to implement effective change through more effective Leadership, Vision, Culture, People, Alignment, and Focused Execution. I love the leadership insights packed inside this book, and more importantly I love that everyone who reads it will be moved to do something right away to drive results for themselves.”
—ADRIAN GOSTICK, New York Times bestselling author of All In and Leading with Gratitude
“I absolutely love this book. Gary captures the essence of leadership so well, backed with real-life examples and applications. It is especially relevant and helpful to leaders struggling with resistance to change, a common reaction to any cultural transformation. I will not hesitate to recommend it to every aspiring and accomplished leader I know.”
—JOHN MURPHY, Founder and CEO of Venture Management Consultants, Inc. and award-winning author