Pathways to Performance: A Guide to Transforming Yourself, Your Team, and Your OrganizationPathways to Performance is loaded with hundreds of practical how-to points ("Pathways and Pitfalls") in two parallel paths - strategies for team or organization improvement along with their complementary techniques for personal transformation. Topics include: * Wandering Off the Improvement Trail: The Deadly Dozen Failure Factors * The High-Performance Balance: Managing Things, Leading People * Self Leadership: It All Starts With You * The Big Picture: A Map to Improvement Pathways and Passages * Focus and Context: Vision, Values, and Purpose * Innovation and Organizational Learning * Establishing Goals and Priorities, Getting Organized, and Managing Time * Improvement Planning and Implementation * Change Checkpoints and Improvement Milestones Pathways to Performance blends personal and professional experiences with extensive research, insightful quotations, dollops of humor, and simple conceptual models. This easy-to-read, comprehensive book shows you how to improve yourself in step with the changes you're making to your team or organization - propelling you and your organization down the path of truly effective improvement. |
Contents
CHAPTER | 1 |
CHAPTER 3 | 19 |
CHAPTER 4 | 33 |
CHAPTER 5 | 52 |
CHAPTER 7 | 71 |
CHAPTER 8 | 88 |
CHAPTER 9 | 106 |
CHAPTER 12 | 145 |
CHAPTER 14 | 181 |
CHAPTER 16 | 199 |
CHAPTER 18 | 219 |
CHAPTER 20 | 238 |
CHAPTER 22 | 260 |
CHAPTER 24 | 280 |
Notes | 299 |
CHAPTER 13 | 162 |
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Pathways to Performance: A Guide to Transforming Yourself, Your Team, and ... Jim Clemmer No preview available - 1995 |
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