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Making Strategy Work: Building Sustainable Growth Capability (Jossey-Bass Business & Management)

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Naively I expected this book to be about how to make strategy an integral part of a company's management process. According to Gartner aligning strategy with action is still one of the stumbling blocks most companies are having. Unfortunately I didn't get the answers to any of my questions from this book. Instead of discussing strategy Dr. Galpin spends the entire book discussing the basic concepts of how to organize and manage a change management PROJECT.

To clarify a little more, if a company was planning on implementing six sigma as both a standard within the manufacturing area and as a cultural underpinning for the company, the book attempts to provide some very basic information about setting up a project team to deploy the cultural side of the six sigma message. Unfortunately as a book on project management book I found it both underwhelming and possibly even unnecessary.

I was equally frustrated with the efficacy of this book in terms of its contribution to expanding the knowledge base on how to do change management successfully. I felt that he didn't spend enough time on culture, communication and resistance to change which I believe are the three major components that would need to be addressed to discuss true change management.

Once again if you are looking for a book on making strategy work in your organization - then you have the wrong book.

Dr. Galpin has, once again, put the "practical" back into corporate strategy. The theories are broadbased, allowing for multiple applications within the workplace. It is, truly, the "Citizen Kane" for Corporate Strategy