Mike Straw, UK founded Achieve Breakthrough in 2003, a leading organizational change consultancy whose 12 global consultants work closely with clients to deliver bespoke Breakthrough Programmes, enabling them to achieve and sustain significant step changes and business performance improvements. Achieve Breakthrough was recognized as Consultancy of the Year in 2013 by the CIPD, demonstrating the company's impact over the past 10 years.
Mike has 25 years' experience in industry working with large corporations such as Roche, Novartis, PepsiCo, Diageo, Heineken, Microsoft, AMEX and Large Acute NHS hospitals. Mike is a regular speaker on the topic of transformative and cultural change. He is connected to Bath University Business School (UK) and Duke University (USA) where he runs the innovation and leadership transformation sections of their MBA programmes.

Paul Adams is CEO for Glory Global Solutions where he leads the global management team for the new business. He has a 20 year history in leadership/delivering organizational change to brands such as Diageo, The Co-Operative and Smith & Nephew plc. He has a wealth of knowledge from senior executive roles in healthcare, consumer products and retail sectors. Previous experience includes board, management and commercial roles with a number of FTSE100 companies across Europe, the Americas and Asia; delivering key expertise in areas covering new production development, large and complex commercial deals, major global operations and manufacturing.

A note from the authors vii

Introduction 1

Shift 1: Letting go of the past 15

Shift 2: Developing breakthrough ambition 27

Shift 3: Creating a bold new vision of the future 39

Shift 4: Engaging the players in the bold new future 57

Shift 5: Cut ting through the DNA 75

Shift 6: Keeping the organization future-focused 93

Shift 7: Gaining energy from setbacks 109

Summary 127

Final thoughts 137

About the authors 139

Acknowledgements 141

The extraordinary people club... 143