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Michael brings over 20 years of leadership and consulting experience to his role in driving transformation in a digital world. He believes that digital transformation is a combination of the human and the technological and that our organizations can only make the changes needed to thrive by addressing both the social and technical systems of which they are made. Michael has led and advised on transformations and cultural change from start up and private equity through to Fortune 50 companies across a very broad variety of industries, private and public.
Michael is the former Chief Learning Officer for Digital Transformation at GE where he was responsible to accelerate the transformation of GE to the Digital Industrial leader. He also acted as the Chief Learning Officer and Global Head of Organization Development for Bloomberg, LP. Previously, Michael spent 12 years at Gartner, Inc., where he most recently held the position of Managing Vice President Programs associates. He speaks internationally on the art and science of leadership, digital leadership, culture change, influencing and communication skills, and the changing role of the CXO leader in a socio-technical world.
The Book Summary
Technology doesn't transform organizations - people do.
In an era of technological and constant change, companies are bombarded with urgent advice to become more agile, lean, and digital. Billions are spent on digital transformation efforts with the promise that these efforts will increase competitive advantage. Yet even when only 30 percent of these efforts succeed, this hard-won competitive advantage only lasts until the next disruption before the cycle repeats, causing transformation fatigue. The Heart of Transformation breaks this cycle by suggesting that the pace and complexity of change is too great and too complex to be addressed by a single change effort or transformation. The answer lies in the organization's greatest asset: its people. In the face of complexity, it is the organization's people and their ability to adapt and learn that are the true engine of organizational change.
The Heart of Transformation outlines the six human capabilities (Humanizing, Learning, Exploring, Changing, Innovating and Pathfinding) that create competitive advantage for organizations organically, quickly and from the bottom up. More importantly, it translates those capabilities into simple and immediately adoptable behaviors for leaders and every person in the organization. It offers a new standard for organizational excellence, one that is dependent on the organization's ability to be deeply human. Instead of offering another "one size fits all" solution, The Heart of Transformation reveals that by leveraging the most human of capabilities, organizations can change better, faster and achieve excellence much quicker than imagined.
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