Cultural Transformations: Lessons of Leadership and Corporate Reinvention from the C-Suite Elite

A Roadmap for Leadership and Cultural Transformation Throughout today's rapidly changing business world, top CEOs face two primary challenges: solving the leadership gap and creating a sustainable corporate culture. International leadership coach John Mattone and CEO magazine editor-in-chief Nick Vaidya unlock the keys to leadership development and cultural transformation through intimate interviews with fourteen CEOs from top organizations, including: Deloitte, Graybar, The North Face, HP Financial, Ovations Brands, Virtusa, and Bigcommerce. Culture was long thought to be merely a 'soft' resource in the corporate equation. However, more and more business leaders are beginning to recognize the necessity of culture when it comes to creating and sustaining long-term growth and change. What is the key to creating a strong business culture' Leadership. The best cultures start with CEOs who set the tone for the rest of the company, guiding others through the often difficult process of corporate transformation. You'll gain valuable insights, through experiences from the finest business minds, on how to introduce and sustain cultural change in your organization. -Learn how successful CEOs came to realize their leadership potential -Discover the key attributes that increase a leader's effectiveness -Uncover your own leadership strengths and development needs -Handle the primary obstacles to cultural transformation -Address outdated mindsets and resistance to organizational change Mattone and Vaidya also draw upon their own extensive coaching and consulting experiences to provide a powerful and proven 6-Step Process for designing and implementing effective cultural transformations. This process enhances the other valuable tools in this comprehensive guide, so you can start building a positive organizational culture right away. Read more... Abstract: A Roadmap for Leadership and Cultural Transformation Throughout today's rapidly changing business world, top CEOs face two primary challenges: solving the leadership gap and creating a sustainable corporate culture. International leadership coach John Mattone and CEO magazine editor-in-chief Nick Vaidya unlock the keys to leadership development and cultural transformation through intimate interviews with fourteen CEOs from top organizations, including: Deloitte, Graybar, The North Face, HP Financial, Ovations Brands, Virtusa, and Bigcommerce. Culture was long thought to be merely a 'soft' resource in the corporate equation. However, more and more business leaders are beginning to recognize the necessity of culture when it comes to creating and sustaining long-term growth and change. What is the key to creating a strong business culture' Leadership. The best cultures start with CEOs who set the tone for the rest of the company, guiding others through the often difficult process of corporate transformation. You'll gain valuable insights, through experiences from the finest business minds, on how to introduce and sustain cultural change in your organization. -Learn how successful CEOs came to realize their leadership potential -Discover the key attributes that increase a leader's effectiveness -Uncover your own leadership strengths and development needs -Handle the primary obstacles to cultural transformation -Address outdated mindsets and resistance to organizational change Mattone and Vaidya also draw upon their own extensive coaching and consulting experiences to provide a powerful and proven 6-Step Process for designing and implementing effective cultural transformations. This process enhances the other valuable tools in this comprehensive guide, so you can start building a positive organizational culture right away This book reveals to current leaders at all levels, emerging C-suite executives, and future leaders unique insights, thoughts, beliefs, values, success stories, setbacks, failures, and lessons learned of some of the world's most successful CEOs and shows how they leveraged what they have learned about themselves as the critical foundation to creating and sustaining positive organizational cultures. Reading these powerful interviews and stories, readers will uncover their own unique leadership gifts and strengths as well as discover their development needs and perhaps some truths about their values, character, and beliefs. Informative, prescriptive, inspirational, and aspirational the book features interviews with two dozen top CEOs who have created, led, and sustained successful organizational cultures, including: Interviews completed Vice Chairman, Deloitte MD of Proctor The heart of the book are the highlights from CEO conversations: two dozen stories of success and failure, key learnings, important personal and leadership changes, and how they were able to bridge their personal discoveries to working with their senior leaders and their entire organization to create a powerful work culture. Each chapter will also feature summary observations about each CEO interview, written in an executive assessment format, e.g., reflections about thinking patterns, emotional make-up, etc. Each CEO will have already taken the MLEI Assessment (a measure of executive maturity). The appendix features the MLEI as well as leadership development guidelines for strengthening leadership capabilities and offers a potent roadmap for leaders and future leaders. The final chapter on Transforming Culture features the 7-Steps organizations must take to achieve successful transformation. Foreword by Marshall Goldsmith. "Throughout today's rapidly changing business world, top CEOs face two primary challenges: solving the leadership gap and creating a sustainable corporate culture. International leadership coach John Mattone and CEO magazine editor-in-chief Nick Vaidya unlock the keys to leadership development and cultural transformation through intimate interviews with fourteen CEOs from top organizations, including Deloitte, Graybar, Genpact, The North Face, HP Financial, Virtusa, Bigcommerce, American Marketing Association, Almansoori Specialized Engineering, Oman LNG, and Claro. Culture was long thought to be merely a 'soft' resource in the corporate equation. However, more and more business leaders are beginning to recognize the necessity of culture when it comes to creating and sustaining long-term growth and change. What is the key to creating a strong business culture? Leadership. The best cultures start with CEOs who set the tone for the rest of the company, guiding others through the often difficult process of corporate transformation."--Amazon Machine Generated Contents Note: Ch. 1 Understanding Your Culture And Understanding The Culture You Must Create -- Ch. 2 The Six Critical Steps To Transforming Your Culture -- Ch. 3 Kathy Mazzarella -- Ch. 4 Kris Canekeratne -- Ch. 5 Eddie Machaalani -- Ch. 6 Harib Al Kitani -- Ch. 7 Hap Klopp -- Ch. 8 Russ Klein -- Ch. 9 Rohit Mehrotra -- Ch. 10 Irv Rothman -- Ch. 11 Juan Carlos Archila Cabal -- Ch. 12 Nabil Al Alawi -- Ch. 13 Cathy Benko -- Ch. 14 Deva Bharathi -- Ch. 15 Nv Tiger Tyagarajan -- Ch. 16 Anthony Wedo -- Ch. 17 Final Thoughts And Call To Action. John Mattone And Nick Vaidya. Includes Bibliographical References And Index. Mode Of Access: World Wide Web. Content: Machine generated contents note: ch. 1 Understanding Your Culture and Understanding the Culture You Must Create -- ch. 2 The Six Critical Steps to Transforming Your Culture -- ch. 3 Kathy Mazzarella -- ch. 4 Kris Canekeratne -- ch. 5 Eddie Machaalani -- ch. 6 Harib Al Kitani -- ch. 7 Hap Klopp -- ch. 8 Russ Klein -- ch. 9 Rohit Mehrotra -- ch. 10 Irv Rothman -- ch. 11 Juan Carlos Archila Cabal -- ch. 12 Nabil Al Alawi -- ch. 13 Cathy Benko -- ch. 14 Deva Bharathi -- ch. 15 NV "Tiger" Tyagarajan -- ch. 16 Anthony Wedo -- ch. 17 Final Thoughts and Call to Action.