“CHANGE IS THE LAW OF LIFE.” – John F. Kennedy
“CHANGE BEFORE YOU HAVE TO.” – Jack Welch
“CHANGE IS INEVITABLE. GROWTH IS OPTIONAL.” – John Maxwell
“WHEN YOU’RE FINISHED CHANGING, YOU’RE FINISHED.” – Benjamin Franklin
“CHANGE IS THE LAW OF LIFE.” – John F. Kennedy “CHANGE BEFORE YOU HAVE TO.” – Jack Welch “CHANGE IS INEVITABLE. GROWTH IS OPTIONAL.” – John Maxwell “WHEN YOU’RE FINISHED CHANGING, YOU’RE FINISHED.” – Benjamin Franklin
Gary A. Garfield
Author. Speaker. Consultant. Coach.
As critical as change is in our ever changing world, most organizational and group change efforts fail. Why? Because change is hard, very hard. Habits are stubborn; they do not die easily. Studies have shown that about two-thirds of all change efforts fail to reach their goals.
As an expert on successfully driving change, as well as leadership and corporate culture, Gary is a highly sought-after speaker, author, consultant and coach. Gary is the former CEO of Bridgestone Americas, a 55,000 person company with operations on five continents and the successor company to the iconic Firestone Tire and Rubber Company. During his tenure, he successfully drove radical change throughout the organization, including the culture, the strategy, the vision, and, where necessary, the people. Unlike most change efforts, it worked. The company’s profits grew by an astounding 500 percent in six years. Gary comes from a position of hands-on success.
Company turnarounds are no easy feat.
Nor is it easy to successfully drive significant change. Thus, most change efforts fail. Dysfunctional and entrenched corporate cultures, leadership problems and other issues so often doom transformation efforts and a leader’s agenda.
In Driving Results: Six Lessons Learned from Transforming an Iconic Company, veteran executive Gary A. Garfield delivers an inspiring and actionable blueprint for business change and transformation that is as hands-on as it is original.
If you are looking to build a culture that is people focused, a culture that attracts and retains great talent, and one that drives superior results... you need a play book.
Here it is. Read it, share it and do it! Play to win.
—CHESTER ELTON, bestselling author of The Carrot Principle & Leading With Gratitude
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Many years ago, a friend of mine in the company where I worked slumped into a chair in my office and said he had just been fired. Remarkably, he then said it wasn’t our mutual boss’ fault; it was his own fault. He explained that our boss had repeatedly told him what he needed to do to succeed in his job, but my friend said he “just didn’t do it.”