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One reality of business that seasoned executives know well – often by learning it the hard way – is that introducing and implementing breakthrough change is an uphill battle. No matter how necessary the change or how seemingly evident the need, this process demands continuous hard work. This book is designed to help you understand and overcome the difficulties in finding and advancing a smoother path.

The problems leaders face are perhaps more pervasive today, given the accelerated pace of business in a much flatter world. However, problems also present opportunities. You can learn to recognize such opportunities and show others that the potential victories far outweigh the discomfort that change will elicit.

Breakthrough change refers to those disruptive initiatives that dramatically, profoundly affect the organization and the people in it. It redefines the prospects for the future and interrupts the organization's cautious momentum plan with incremental improvement. Breakthrough change can increase revenues or reduce costs. It can mean a new distribution channel or a new line of products. And it can be as exciting as launching an international expansion or as scary as a massive restructuring and downsizing effort. Breakthrough change also depends on the situation, or context. What is breakthrough to one organization can be business as usual to another.

You need to do everything you can to stack the deck in favor of success. That's exactly what you'll learn how to do in this book.