Pt. 1. The change problem and its solution. Transforming organizations : why firms fail -- Successful change and the force that drives it -- pt. 2. The eight-stage process. Establishing a sense of urgency -- Creating the guiding coalition -- Developing the guiding coalition -- Developing a...

Resolving the tension between theories E and O of change / Michael Beer & Nitin Nohria -- Purpose of change. Value maximization and the corporate objective function / Michael C. Jensen -- The puzzles and paradoxes of how living companies create wealth: why single-valued objective functions are...

The essential evolution: personnel, human resources, talentship -- What is a decision science applied to talent? -- The HC bridge framework: pivot-points in impact, effectiveness, and efficiency -- Impact: finding the strategy pivot-points -- Impact: linking strategic pivot-points to...

Getting started -- Why have a business plan? -- What's your purpose? -- Who's your audience? -- What information will you need? -- Anatomy of a business plan -- Cover page and table of contents -- Developing the table of contents -- Executive summary -- Formal executive summaries -- Executive...