Fixing What Already Works; How to Make Good Organizations Great

EVERY BUSINESS OR ORGANIZATION HAS ROOM FOR IMPROVEMENT. The key is in understanding what and how to improve. Fixing What Already Works is designed to answer those questions and show how proven philosophies, methods, and tools together can produce the type of systemic change many organizations are seeking to get to their next level of performance. Written partially as an info-novel, Fixing What Already Works chronicles the story of Mike Preston, an employee who takes on a challenge for improvement at Sanders Electronics. As he tries to figure out why the products he is chartered to manage are performing so poorly, he discovers several operational issues, communication problems, and some downright hostile coworkers in his company. While the challenges Mike faces seem almost overwhelming, a chance meeting with a stranger at the golf course, the support of his girlfriend, and a boss who believes in him, along with a positive attitude that gains his coworkers' trust and ultimately inspires them, soon allows Mike to turn around his products' profits and employee morale. Readers of Fixing What Already Works will be caught up in the storyline, but more importantly, will learn, in an entertaining and educational way, how to create the type of organizational paradigm shift necessary for success. The concluding chapters analyze the story, provide additional information to assist the reader, and overall, offer invaluable advice and information. Anyone seeking new ideas for performance improvement and guidance on the structure and process of implementing change need look no further. At last here is the blueprint you've need to achieve transformative change.