Leaders First
Subtitle: Six Bold Steps to Sustain Breakthroughs in Construction
Publisher: Accelerated Solutions, Ltd.
Published: 2012
Place of publication: Littleton, Colorado, USA
Format: Hardback
Number of pages: 404
ISBN-13: 9780984000807
Table of contents: title: CONTENTS; title: FIGURES	10; title: CONCEPTS	12; title: PREFACE	13; title: INTRODUCTION	18; title: CHAPTER 1 THE CHALLENGE	28; title: Violated Expectations	37; title: Blame	46; title: Staff Frustration	62; title: Leadership Vacuum	66; title: Hit-or-Miss Communications	68; title: Fragmented Data	73; title: Poor Coordination	75; title: Now What?	80; title: CHAPTER 2 THE ASSESSMENT MEETING	82; title: A Vision of Leadership	89; title: Leaders' Variances at Blue Range	95; title: Clarifying Variances	107; title: Path of Leader Variances	121; title: CHAPTER 3 COMMITMENT	132; title: Clear Expectations Foster Commitment	146; title: Commitment Emerges from the Courage to Face Failure	154; title: CHAPTER 4 DEFINING OUTCOMES	159; title: The Best Teams Practice	159; title: Beyond Individual Outputs to Organization Outcomes	163; title: Concentrate on the Payoff Zone, Not the Comfort Zone	175; title: The First Critical Outcome	185; title: Listing Possible Outcome Areas	186; title: What Makes a Core Business Outcome Unique?	192; title: Can We Deliver the Ordinary?	202; title: Stronger Companies Command a Higher Price	208; title: CHAPTER 5 ROLE ASSESSMENT	213; title: Work on the System, Not Just in It	219; title: Overlapping Accountabilities Lead to Conflict	232; title: Supervised by Proxy	238; title: Gaps, Overlaps and Confusion	244; title: CHAPTER 6 ACCEPTING ACCOUNTABILITY	258; title: The Communication Logjam	266; title: The Ideal Location for Accountability	274; title: Who Wants the Accountability?	278; title: CHAPTER 7 ROLE INTEGRATION	286; title: Integrate Roles and Counterbalance Conflicts of Interest	294; title: Different Roles Yield Different Levels of Outcome Power	299; title: Role Integration Builds an Outcome's Production Process	306; title: Wrapping Up Roles in the First Outcome	315; title: CHAPTER 8 THE STRATEGIC REPORTING STRUCTURE	319; title: Outcome Leadership Changes the Organization Hierarchy	319; title: Outcome Power in a Hierarchy	332; title: Working with Difficult Issues	350; title: CHAPTER 9 STRATEGIC VISION	373; title: Many Possible Visions but Only One Fits	376; title: Vision Commitment	389; title: Not Everyone Is Ready to Join a Leaders' Team	393; title: CHAPTER 10 ONE YEAR LATER	403; title: Appendix A: Six Bold Steps to Sustain Breakthroughs	418; title: Appendix B: Original and New Organization Charts	419; title: Appendix C: Complete List of Categories of Leader Variances and the Problems They Cause	421; title: Appendix D: Role Descriptions and Codes for Leaders' Outcome Areas	431; title: Appendix E: Completed Outcome Matrix	433; title: Citations	436; title: Suggested Reading	436; title: About the Author	439; title: Develop Your Structure of Leadership	440; title: Index	441