Transformational Leadership: A Blueprint for Real Organizational Change - Hardcover

Dobbs, Randy; Walker, Paul Robert

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9781935166191: Transformational Leadership: A Blueprint for Real Organizational Change

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ISBN 10: 1935166190 ISBN 13: 9781935166191

Publisher: Parkhurst Brothers Publishers Inc, 2010

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Versatile leaders optimize organizations with positive changes - persistence, realism, and transparency

No one is immune to these rocky economic times. Innovative businesspeople all over the country are adapting their organizational structures to survive, profit, and compete in today s unreliable market. The practical and relevant advice in Transformational Leadership: A Blueprint for Real Organizational Change by Randy Dobbs can be applied to major corporations and small businesses alike, as well as to non-profits, universities, hospitals, and other institutions.

Transformational Leadership differs from often dry and notoriously boring business books - it reads like a novel. In it, Dobbs provides a step-by-step guide to improving the internal structure of any organization. Effective and common sense how-to advice is supported with concrete examples of the principles at work. His leadership insights will help sharpen the skills of beginning entrepreneurs as well as veteran moguls.

His twenty-five years in leadership positions and extensive CEO experience at three companies makes Randy Dobbs a true leadership expert. As CEO of GE Capital, IT Solutions, he was awarded General Electric's Turnaround Business of the Year Award. Now the secrets of a successful executive are compiled into a readable, practical guide for all types of leaders.

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Sharing personal experience and practical business blueprints, Dobbs takes the reader on a journey through the transformational process. Leaders working in organizations of various sizes--and facing diverse challenges and opportunities--will find Dobbs' ideas transformative, personally as well as professionally. This is a book for persons who want to be change agents within their respective organizations. It is for all who want to make a difference for themselves and their coworkers.

About the Author:

Randy Dobbs rose to become CEO in a General Electric Company business with the encouragement and coaching of high-level executives including legendary GE Chairman Jack Welch. In a string of GE positions of increasing responsibility, Dobbs excelled as a turn-around specialist who transformed every organization he led and established a winning record of improved earnings. More recently, Dobbs used the same secret sauce to transform and improve earnings as CEO of Phillips Medical Systems, North America, and USIS, a leading global security services provider, where he led 7,000 knowledge workers to a new understanding of how to work together to achieve business results. Now a Senior Operating Executive at Welsh Carson Anderson & Stowe, one of the largest and most successful private-equity firms in the U.S., Dobbs leads leaders to exciting and profitable results.

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