Recipe for Organizational Success
A Ten-Step Methodology to Build a World-Class Performing Organization
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Today's business leaders deal with complex business problems, such as preparing their organizations for sustained long-term performance, improving execution, achieving desired cost structure, and improving employee and organizational productivity. Recipe for Organizational Success will show business executives how to focus their efforts and solve these problems so that they can significantly improve productivity, profitability, and capability of their organizations. Readers will learn how to create a culture of accountability, discipline, and systems to build a world class performing organization. This book is a humble attempt to translate author’s over 35 years of experience and the experiences of other successful business leaders into a foundation for creating high performing organization for fast-faced business executives. The foundation comes in the form of a Ten Step methodology, a collection of sound management principles and practices to create exceptional organizational performance. The ten steps of the methodology are broken up into three functional parts: Part A: Lay a solid foundation: Commitment and Culture (Step #s 1-4) Part B: Focus on two core business functions (Step #s 5-6) Part C: Instill a problem solving culture (Step #s 7-10) The ten steps of the methodology are: 1. Unwavering Relentless Commitment by CEO 2.Create Organizational Alignment 3. Take advantage of Power of Rule of Three 4.Celebrate Successes to keep Continually Improving 5. Master Execution/Focus Organizational Efforts 6.Achieve the best possible Cost Structure 7. Follow Implementation Model 8. Expose Harsh Realities (Breakthrough Thinking) 9. Utilize Problem Solving Model 10. Have a Management System in place Throughout the book, you will see a blueprint begin to develop for creating the foundation of a high-performing organization. The chapters provide practical solutions in the form of strategies, models, systems, processes, tools, and techniques. In short, the book shows you step-by-step how to build a world class performing organization and gives you the competitive advantage you need to succeed. Once you execute and practice the methodology, your organization will have the following benefits: 1. Improved Profitability 2. Improved Capability 3. You will have created a World Class Performing Organization
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Creating a world-class-performing organization is an enormous challenge, but doing so will give your organization the competitive advantage that it needs for success. World-class-performing organizations are incredibly effective and as a result, consistently outperform most of their competition for an extended period of time. This guide offers a ten-step methodology to lay the foundation needed to join the ranks of these organizations. To continuously improve your organization’s performance, you need to develop a systematic corporate approach to problem-solving, build capability for sustainable long-term growth, and master three major business functions: leadership, execution, and cost structure. The ten-step methodology in this book focuses on accomplishing these objectives by walking you through how to: - Create a culture of accountability, discipline, and systems - Improve profitability and execution capacity - Focus your organization’s efforts on increasing productivity Build a world-class performing business with a Recipe for Organizational Success.
About the Author
Bharat Desai is a high-tech operations executive turned business coach and ethical adviser. He is passionate about building high-performing organizations. He graduated from Santa Clara University with a Master of Business Administration and a Master of Science in Electrical Engineering. He lives with his wife in the San Francisco Bay Area, and they have two married daughters. You can reach Bharat at bharat@bharatdesai.com.