Keep Them on Your Side : Leading and Managing for Momentum

by Bacharach, Samuel

• ISBN13: 9781593377298
• ISBN10: 1593377290
• eBook ISBN(s): 9781440517501
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2006-10-01
• Publisher: Adams Media Corp
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Summary

Many leaders spend time getting colleagues on their side-only to drop the ball by failing to keep them on their side. The key to long-term success in any organization is maintaining momentum for ideas and initiatives.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments	p. ix
Introduction	p. xvii
You've Got Them on Your Side-But Will They Go the Distance?	p. 1
Political Competence: Get Them on Your Side	p. 6
Managerial Competence: Keep Them on Your Side	p. 9
You've Got to Have Both	p. 12
Demystifying Momentum	p. 23
Beyond the Big Mo	p. 21
Structural Momentum: Maintain Resources and Capacity	p. 31
Performance Momentum: Monitor and Make Adjustments	p. 39
Cultural Momentum: Motivate to Sustain Focus	p. 43
Political Momentum: Mobilize Support and Anticipate Opposition	p. 48
Balancing Leadership for Momentum	p. 55
Directive vs. Facilitative Leadership	p. 58
Balanced Leadership	p. 71
Structural Momentum	p. 74
Performance Momentum	p. 75
Cultural Momentum	p. 78
Political Momentum	p. 80
Structural Momentum: Maintain Resources and Capacity	p. 83
Create Hierarchies but Don't Forget Teams	p. 84
Provide Resources but Don't Be a Welfare Agency	p. 95
Give Autonomy but Define Parameters	p. 102
Performance Momentum: Monitor and Make Adjustments	p. 117
Be Clear about the Subjective Bottom Line	p. 122
Make Adjustments but Don't Overreact	p. 134
Cultural Momentum: Motivate to Sustain Focus	p. 145
Motivating Through Culture	p. 146
Create a Problem-Solving Culture but Don't Process Things to Death	p. 153
Pump Up the Collective but Don't Forget the Individual	p. 159
Celebrate but Don't Worship Idols	p. 168
Political Momentum: Mobilize Support and Anticipate Opposition	p. 179
Don't Let the Coalition Mindset Slip Away	p. 182
Don't Feed the Trojan Horse	p. 190
Beware of Countercoalitions	p. 202
The Proactive Leader: Get Them and Keep Them on Your Side	p. 207
Relevant Reading	p. 215
Endnotes	p. 219
Index	p. 231
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