This book includes an assessment for determining your organization's DNA and running examples showing DNA in action.

Much like DNA provides the structure and design for life, The DNA of Leadership defines the behaviors that are essential to become an outstanding leader. This book is the result of working with thousands of executives, reviewing their behaviors, and identifying characteristics that are required for high levels of success, including: Setting a forceful vision; Identifying and hiring extraordinary talent; Delegating for leveraging of results; Communicating for impact; Having difficult conversations; Creating a compelling business model. This book is written is for leaders at every level in an organization, from the first-time manager to the chief executive officer and offers practical ways to change your behavior and provides an active roadmap toward becoming a truly outstanding leader.

"Organization development is not just a murky, high-end concept for staff in human resources. In reality, it's a set of powerful tools for building and strengthening any department -- including facilities management. What's more, there are certain characteristics that are common to successful and effective FM organizations. Now, the well-known consultant Stormy Friday has devised an original, easy-to-follow blueprint for applying the best ideas in organization development (OD) specifically to the FM arena. Put it to use and you'll increase your department's performance, morale, and sustainability -- while equipping you and your staff with the skills and knowledge to make FM a strategic player in fulfilling your company's long-term goals. This clearly written book is organized around seven crucial ""DNA links,"" or building blocks for designing and developing a high-performance department. Within each link, the author outlines a set of OD skills for you to develop and apply, as well as practical tools and techniques and revealing case studies of OD at work in an FM environment (Dow Corning Corporation, Adaptec, Applied Physics Laboratory, and more). The DNA links are: 1. Leadership: FM managers often overlook the impact of their leadership on an FM organization. This book helps you focus on the skills you need to create a fully engaged workforce, where risk-taking, innovation, and strategic thinking are everyday occurrences. 2. Individuals: Without people, you don't have an FM department -- and you need to know how individuals think, what motivates them, and how to use that knowledge to positively influence their behavior. You'll find valuable insights into what makes people tick inside. 3. Groups: How do you distribute work -- to individuals or groups? This book shows you how to make the best decision based on an informed understanding of individual versus group behavior, and whether or not group process will effectively accomplish your organization's goals. 4. Culture: Corporate culture profoundly influences the development of an FM department, and is typically the cement that holds the enterprise together. Learn about the components of culture and how to conscientiously change that culture to build a stronger department. 5. Visioning and Strategic Planning: Most FM departments are too focused on their hectic day-to-day activities to engage in visioning and strategic planning. But stepping back and devising a practical FM action plan will actually reduce the daily frenzy! Find out how to do it inside. 6. Structure: Organization structure is a critical DNA linkage. Figuring out the best possible structure for your department is a difficult but essential skill. To simplify the task, the author supplies step-by-step guidelines for choosing the most appropriate structure and the right mix of staff and skills. 7. Future: FM organizations need to pay close attention to business trends and activities that could impact their company and department in the future. Learn about the skills necessary to predict changes and challenges that might soon affect your profession. Filled with how-to instructions, up-to-the-minute research, and a broad, historical perspective, Organization Development for Facility Managers is an important contribution to the field and an essential guide for FM professionals."

A new classic, cited by leaders and media around the globe as a highly recommended read for anyone interested in innovation. In The Innovator’s DNA, authors Jeffrey Dyer, Hal Gregersen, and bestselling author Clayton Christensen (The Innovator’s Dilemma, The Innovator’s Solution, How Will You Measure Your Life?) build on what we know about disruptive innovation to show how individuals can develop the skills necessary to move progressively from idea to impact. By identifying behaviors of the world’s best innovators—from leaders at Amazon and Apple to those at Google, Skype, and Virgin Group—the authors outline five discovery skills that distinguish innovative entrepreneurs and executives from ordinary managers: Associating, Questioning, Observing, Networking, and Experimenting. Once you master these competencies (the authors provide a self-assessment for rating your own innovator’s DNA), the authors explain how to generate ideas, collaborate to implement them, and build innovation skills throughout the organization to result in a competitive edge. This innovation advantage will translate into a premium in your company’s stock price—an innovation premium—which is possible only by building the code for innovation right into your organization’s people, processes, and guiding philosophies. Practical and provocative, The Innovator’s DNA is an essential resource for individuals and teams who want to strengthen their innovative prowess.

Simplified branding. Whether you're a start-up or a seasoned entrepreneur, this step-by-step, brand-defining methodology guides you and your employee teams toward uncovering your brand's unique genetic code; your Dimensional Nucleic Assets(r), from the inside out. Once defined, your business begins its transformation as it gets highly focused and infuses your brand DNA into your systems, leadership and culture, then through your promotional efforts. Brand DNA will help you establish a foundation for success by defining your distinguishing brand attributes: VALUES, STYLE, DIFFERENTIATORS, and STANDARDS upon which to create competitive advantage and build your authentic brand. It is the foundation that enables you to: Cultivate a unified, inspired, and engaged employee culture that supports your brand 100% and shares common core values and performance standards Create consistent brand experiences that win customers for life Adapt your business strategy and set the rules for doing business Establish the basis for brand awareness by leveraging your distinctive brand attributes through the behaviors of your employees Create long term growth and sustainability for your business Leverage your brand DNA attributes within your external marketing efforts, social media, and PR to create distinction and competitive advantage"

Even world-class companies, with powerful and proven business models, eventually discover limits to growth. That's what makes emerging high-growth industries so attractive. With no proven formula for making a profit, these industries represent huge opportunities for the companies that are fast enough and smart enough to capture them first. But building tomorrow's businesses while simultaneously sustaining excellence in today's demands a delicate balance. It is a mandatory quest, but one that is fraught with contradiction and paradox. Until now, there has been little practical guidance. Based on an in-depth, multiyear research study of innovative initiatives at ten large corporations, Vijay Govindarajan and Chris Trimble identify three central challenges: forgetting yesterday's successful processes and practices; borrowing selected resources from the core business; and learning how the new business can succeed.The authors make recommendations regarding staffing, leadership roles, reporting relationships, process design, planning, performance assessment, incentives, cultural norms, and much more. Breakthrough growth opportunities can make or break companies and careers. "Forget, Borrow, Learn" is every leader's guide to execution in unexplored territory.

"Corporate DNA" explores what happens when managers think about and run their companies as if they were living things. The book's key perception is that the choice of a mechanical or organic model results in organizations developing either mechanical or organic structures. Those structures, in turn, lead to certain types of behavior.