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Customer Reviews "The corporate culture of an organization influences its capability to change, grow and renew itself for conquering new chanllenges and creating new horizons for sustainable growth and performance. Victor's ebook provides a practical approach for corporate leaders driving for a winning culture, which attracts talent and motivates creativity and agility, to compete effectively in the new economy." - Tan Sri
Dato' Dr Teh Hong Piow "In an increasingly changing environment, the corporate culture plays a key role in helping organisations cope woth change. This ebook captures beautifully Victor's philosophies and principles and change management, which he relates from his invaluable experience as change practitioner and consultant. It is due to his invaluable experience and contribution to more than 300 organizations, that we invited Victor Tan to initiate the corporate culture development at Kumpulan Darul Ehsan Berhad. Victor creates a positive impact not only on organizations, but also on individuals. This book is a valuable reference for influences of organisation change. Every CEO and manager should read it." - Dato' Hj Zabir Bajuri "This book is most timely, as organizations today need to develop a strong corporate culture to pull people together and enable them to adapt to the changes around. In this respect, Victor has very ably initiated the corporate culture development in Kumpulan Darul Ehsan Bhd, which certainly is a good and positive start. Read this powerful book; it will certainly benefit you and your organization." - Datin Paduka Juma'ah Moktar "This book contains practical ideas on how an organization can go about building a corporate culture to compete in the marketplace, as well as develop a competent and motivated workforce. Victor Tan speaks with authority as he has successfully helped Wyeth (M) Sdn Bhd with corporate culture development. I fully recommend all CEOs and managers to read this book to extract the useful ideas and put them into practise in their respective organizations." - Victor Hau "I have personally seen Victor in action while conducting programmes for clients seeking to develop their corporate culture. I find his treatment of the subject most inspirational and effective. I am impressed with his creative and methodical approach towards culture building in organizations. In this latest book, he shares his extensive experience as a consultant who has worked with over 300 Asian organizations and set many on the right path towards positive culture change. This is a powerful book whose time has come and no top management executive, who is committed to pursuing excellence, should miss reading it." - Dr. Abdul Samad Mohamed 'Victor plays a key agent role in helping organizations in Asia to change for the better. In this latest book, he has captured the essence of corporate culture change in Asian organizations. His experience of working as a consultant with over 300 Asian companies is certainly well capitalized, and he generously shares his lessons of corporate culture development in this book. I fully endorse this book and I recommend every CEO, manager and consultant to read it to gain the maximum benefit." - Chew Liong Kim "Most of us tend to underestimate the importance of corporate culture in an organization. Perhaps we do not understand how corporate culture works to improve the working environment and enhance performance. Victor Tan has very successfully identified the elements that need to be understood and examined for corporate culture to work in an organization. This is an insightful book that should be read by every manager who wishes to develop and promote corporate culture." - Zainal Abdul Ghani "Congratulations to Victor Tan for his excellent effort in writing this book. Managing corporate culture change is a very critical element for any organization and it will help determine if the corporation has a sustainable competitive advantage. It is time for organizations to formulate survival and growth strategies in the aftermath of the September 11 incident. It is therefore very important for all corporate citizens to understand how corporate culture influences an organization's performance. Victor has structured the presentation and the content of the book to the extent that it will provide enjoyable reading." - Wan Zaidi Wan Jaafar "It's a must-read for CEOs and top management who see corporate culture change playing an important role in ensuring their organization's long-term survival. This book provides a clear insight into how changing mindsets, developing an achievement culture and building trust can create a natural environment for the company to sustain growth and performance. I am excited that Victor has initiated the sharing of his vast and invaluable experience as a Change Management Consultant with our organization and customers." - Mohd Sultan Abdul Majeed "It's commonplace these days that organizations are compelled to re-invent themselves - to change in a wholesale fashion - and these changes have to be lasting and have to be embedded in their culture, as new ways of doing things. In this book, Victor speaks from his rich experience in working with CEOs to do just that. I wish more of our candidates for senior corporate positions would dip into it." - Yeap Jin-Soo | |||||||
Sample Chapter PREFACE Having acted as consultant with over 300 Asian organizations and having trained over 25,000 corporate executives, I am very much convinced that there is a strategic gap in the way leaders go about managing their organizations. Many spend a lot of time and effort in improving their organization’s structures, systems and processes, only to find the new systems not working out as well as expected. They also find people resisting the new systems, which affect the performance of the organization adversely. CEOs and leaders are thus frustrated by the lack of positive results from these change efforts. Leaders blame their subordinates and subordinates blame their leaders for the dismal performance, while others blame the change itself and the tools used. This process of faultfinding varies from one organization to another, but the end result is similar The organization becomes "change shy" and argues that the best way is to maintain status quo. To break from this vicious cycle, organizations need to address the missing link in their change efforts. The missing link is corporate culture. Corporate culture is the way people do things in an organization. It is a set of norms comprising beliefs, values and behavioral patterns shared by people in the organization. These norms will determine the success or failure of any change effort in an organization. In the course of my work, I have identified various situations when organizations should seek a change in corporate culture. Examples of such situations include:
I have written this book with over 20 years of hands-on experience'; working with many Asian organizations. I am confident that it will not only help CEOs and leaders understand the importance of corporate culture, but that it will also provide them with a clear approach to bringing about a positive and productive culture change within their organizations. To this end, I have highlighted four key change agenda, which will be elaborated on, in the four main sections of this book. They are:
Throughout the book, you will see that corporate culture change must begin with changing the mindsets of individuals in organizations. To ensure the successful implementation of change requires a change in the beliefs, values and behavior of individuals. The introduction of new technology, for example, will not automatically bring about benefits in an organization. Rather, people will need to change their mindsets and behavior to adapt to the new technology and utilize it to gain the maximum benefit. And it is the same with change efforts. The results will depend on the way the people go about the change. The truth is that there can be no productive change in organizations without first having a positive change in the mindset of individuals. And it is only with the change of the mindsets of people, in an aggregate fashion throughout an organization, that there will be a change in the way people do things and hence, a change in the corporate culture. In a landmark study of 200 companies by Harvard Business School researchers John Kotter and James Heskett, it was found that corporate culture has a strong impact on the performance of organizations. KL Strategic Change Consulting Group's survey of Asian organizations (December 1999) also confirmed this fact. We found that Asian companies with a stronger and more positive corporate culture did better in adapting to the changes brought about by the Asian Financial Crisis. On the other hand, those companies that did not have a strong corporate culture could not adapt to the tough times and eventually collapsed. It is time that CEOs and leaders started to put emphasis on developing the corporate culture of their organizations. We have seen the damage brought about by the Asian Financial Crisis on companies that were unprepared and unable to adapt to change. Your corporate culture can determine whether your company becomes a change winner or a change victim in the next wave of change that is to come. Be forewarned: Start your corporate culture change now, before it is too late.
Victor S.L. Tan
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