Best Practives in Leadership Development & Organization Change 39. Mục đích của cuốn cẩm nang này là cung cấp cho bạn tất cả các yếu tố cần thiết và thiết thực làm thế nào để phát triển khả năng tổ chức, thực hiện một thay đổi tốt nhất và sáng kiến lãnh đạo trong tổ chức của bạn một cách hiệu quả và tốt nhất. | 350 BEST PRACTICES IN LEADERSHIP DEVELOPMENT AND ORGANIZATION CHANGE To address these problems Praxair appointed a new management team in 2000 headed by Wayne Yakich previously PDI s VP of sales and operations and chartered his new team with delivering on the promise of the new business model. TWO TYPES OF DESIRED OUTCOMES The Yakich team communicated a clear vision explained the strategy required to execute the business model and set forth a new set of core values. Among the emphases of the new values was a realization that this is a people business. Previously this concept had been given lip service but was not taken seriously. It became the cornerstone for an entirely new leadership strategy one that would enable employees to become part of the differentiation equation in the marketplace. Now the leadership strategy would be as widely implemented as the business strategy and enable nearly 3 000 customer contact employees to truly differentiate themselves from those of all competitors. Therefore senior managers championed the work to develop a new leadership strategy just as seriously as they drove the business strategy. In both cases differentiation was the goal. The new management team had to transform a loose confederation of businesses with different cultures different operating procedures different values and different ways of managing employees into a market leader that combines the speed advantages of being small with the scale advantages of being large. In order to execute both the business strategy and the leadership strategy two skill sets were required. The first consists of traditional business skills determining what the marketplace wants and how to deliver it. The second consists of leadership skills used to mobilize people so that they have an understanding of the requirements for market success and how to deliver on Although the ultimate business goal for PDI s new senior management team was successful implementation of the business .
