Real Change Leaders: How You Can Create Growth and High Performance at Your Company

by Jon R. Katzenbach

Overview

This updated paperback edition offers a real blueprint for how to deal with the dramatic change in today's marketplace. An added feature, "Real Change Leader's Handbook for Action, " contains an assessment guide, ideas, checklists, and charts to help implement change.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780812929232
Publisher:	Crown Publishing Group
Publication date:	06/10/1997
Edition description:	1 PBK ED
Pages:	416
Product dimensions:	5.50(w) x 8.50(h) x 0.85(d)

About the Author

Jon R. Katzenbach has been helping companies get extraordinary results from their employees for over 50 years. He was formerly senior partner and director of McKinsey and Company, and now directs his own firm, Katzenbach Partners LLC, a New York–based consulting firm that specializes in leadership, team building, and workforce performance. He is the author of Peak Performance and Teams at the Top, and coauthor of The Wisdom of Teams and Real Change Leaders.

Editorial Reviews

The consulting firm McKinsey & Company supported and encouraged Katzenbach to address an issue facing all organizations-change. It's the same issue that has Vice-President Al Gore talking about ``reinventing government'' and Peter Drucker urging managers to ``rediscover leadership.'' Numerous corporations are downsizing, restructuring or revamping. Yet the steps taken to do so may limit the resulting organizations' ability to further adapt, because workers with superior skills are terminated and middle managers with leadership skills are eliminated. Katzenbach et al. argue that the key to changing performance capability in dynamic companies is a new breed of middle manager-The Real Change Leader (RCL). Common characteristics of RCLs are outlined and illustrated with examples. The RCLs connect three forces of organizational change: top aspirations, work force productivity and marketplace reality. This book is highly recommended to all corporate executives who want to learn about effective leadership in large organizations. (Jan.)

Publishers Weekly - Publisher's Weekly

Katzenbach (The Wisdom of Teams, LJ 2/1/93) was chosen by the team of executives and consultants in a number of different industries to do the actual writing in this focus on "real change leaders." Seven common characteristics make up the "RCL," e.g., one who is willing both to see his or her job outside of its daily operation and to meet the changing climate of the world today. The authors differentiate between "good managers" and RCLs and include a self-test. "The Real Change Leaders Handbook for Action" concludes the work, suggesting a course of action for effecting change. This book should be read by managers, management educators, and those studying management. It is more than a simple how-to title; it can be read and the techniques used at several levels.-Littleton M. Maxwell, Business Information Ctr., Univ. of Richmond, Va.

Library Journal

The most sought-after person in today's workplace is [the] change leader, a new breed of middle manager in short supply . . . . How do you identify these people in your organization? How do you build a cadre of such quirky but essential agents of change? McKinsey & Company director Jon R. Katzenbach has some answers.

Fortune

A three-year study by McKinsey & Company has reaped a surprising finding: The make-or-break factor at companies going through major change is not the performance of the CEO and senior executives, but that of a new breed of manager on the front lines -- Real Change Leaders.

Executive Female