The definitive guide to successful corporate transformation

?The framework Bob Miles illustrates in his new book has been the key tool Symantec has used to start the shift from being a technology-driven to a customer-driven company. Business leaders facing a variety of corporate transformation challenges will benefit from this important executive briefing.? -- Gordon E. Eubanks, Jr., chief executive officer, Symantec Corporation

The distillation of a stellar twenty-year career, Leading Corporate Transformation is consultant Robert Miles's reply to executives who want to be able to rise to the most pervasive challenge facing them today: how to achieve fundamental transformation without exposing the organization to unacceptable risk. Here, in the form of an executive briefing, are the expert guidance and tools you need to meet a variety of corporate transformation challenges, whether you are trying to reposition a successful company, revitalize a failing one, merge different businesses and cultures, or manage a leadership succession process. These insights are relevant not only for senior executives, but also for managers at all levels of an organization undergoing fundamental transformation. If you are a leader who must effect organizational change, you will want to keep this book close at hand.

ROBERT H. MILES ,principal of Atlanta-based Corporate Transformation Resources, is a leading consultant and executive speaker in the areas of corporate transformation and executive leadership. Over the past two decades, he has been intensively involved in shaping some of the world's most important business transformations. He is the author of several books on the subject, including Corporate Comeback (Jossey-Bass, 1997).Miles was a charter faculty member at the Yale School of Organization and Management, a faculty innovator at Harvard Business School, and a frequent lecturer at the Stanford Executive Institute. He also served as Hopkins Professor and dean of the faculty of the Goizueta Business School at Emory University during its recent period of fundamental transformation.