I have just published my first Amazon Kindle e-book: 12 Vital Signs of Organizational Health.
It is more of a “mini-book” — 54 pages long, chapters short enough that you could read each chapter aloud in the beginning of your team meetings. Each chapter gives just an introductory overview of the issue discussed. It is not intended to be an “in-depth” book. I quote from and recommend books in each chapter that you could then read to help you delve much more deeply into the chapter’s issue.
My goal is to help you think about your areas of weakness, and strengthen your overall organizational health.
Coming soon will be a few additional tools to use along with this book. I’ll announce them on this blog.
I hope you will check out my book. It is affordable, and provides the right kind of “conversation starters” to help you aim for greater health for your organization.
Here is the “book description,” from the page on Amazon:
There are healthy organizations, and unhealthy organizations. Which is better?
It takes work to get healthy, and it takes work to stay healthy. And, by the way, sadly, it takes little work to lose your good health. That seems to happen on its own. A healthy organization can seemingly go from healthy to unhealthy in the blink of an eye.
Like with a human body, for an organization, it takes work to get in the best shape — “healthy” — and it takes even more work to stay healthy. And like a regular physical check up for a human body, an organization needs to regularly check and monitor its organizational vital signs.
In other words, here are the three steps:
Get Healthy.
Stay healthy.
And always guard against losing your good health.And like with a human body, there are constant threats to health. There are environmental threats, internal threats, external threats. The business climate might be changing; you may have too many “bad hires,” or too many team members who were on top of things, but now no longer are. They are simply slipping in their own abilities. And, your competitors might be ready to leap ahead of you. All of these are serious threats to the health of your organization.
Maybe we need a new position near the very top of the organization — the CHO, the Chief Health Officer for the organization.
So, what would this person look for? Assuming these critical “givens” – the organization has a product or service that customers are willing to pay for; assuming that the organization has developed effective processes to deliver these products or services; assuming that the organization is succeeding in gaining new customers, and keeping customers happy and satisfied with the product or service, then… There are areas that need constant attention, and immediate correction when necessary.
That’s what this book, 12 Vital Signs of Organizational Health, is all about. It is a “basics” book. But, as you know, it is the basics, the fundamentals, that can lead to great success – or, do us in. Get these right, and everything seems to work. Get these wrong, and… you end up with an unhealthy organization.
And you remember the wisdom from a long-ago commercial – “when you’ve got your health, you’ve got everything.” Yes, you do.
So, read this book slowly, ponder each challenge, and decide to get in better shape (or, back in shape).
Your employees, your team members, your customers want, and need, your organization to be a healthy one.
And so do you.
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