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Publications
- March 18, 2020
- Chief Executive
How Honest Conversations Can Accelerate Corporate Transformation
By: Michael Beer
Abstract
When CEOs engage a cross section of their key people in an honest conversation about organizational strengths and barriers to the execution of strategic changes required by the changing competitive landscape, transformations are accelerated. The honest conversation provides a valuable wide-angle lens for examining and changing the company’s system of organizing, managing, and leading. This article describes how an honest conversation led by Becton Dickinson’s CEO Vince Forlenza improved the company’s capability to innovate rapidly and simultaneously increased trust and commitment to change.
Keywords
Honesty; Communication; Organizational Change and Adaptation; Transformation; Organizational Culture
Citation
Beer, Michael. "How Honest Conversations Can Accelerate Corporate Transformation." Chief Executive (March 18, 2020).