Elizabeth Coffey and coaches from The Change Partnership address the primary concerns of today's CEOs:



Developing bifocal vision



Getting the organizational structure right

Creating time to maximize CEO impact

Energizing the organization through leadership

Delivering strategy through the top team

Managing the board

Communicating with all of the stakeholders all of the time

Meeting the diversity challenge

Surviving in the global jungle

Balancing your work/life demands

Each chapter sets its subject in context, explains a specific challenge, defines a set of desired results and then shows how the client was guided to achieving those results. Finally,it suggests the questions you should ask, and answer, before tackling a similar challenge.



To maintain the confidentiality crucial in coaching, eight chapters are fictionalized scenarios based on real life cases. Two,however, illuminate innovative leadership through actual examples: a multinationals top team development initiative, and the UK Senior Civil Services current ethnic minorities programme.



Offering practical frameworks and compelling insights into the realities of life at the top, it is required reading for every incumbent CEO and ambitious senior executive.



Table of Contents

List of Contributors

Foreword

Preface

Introduction



Chapter 1: Developing Bifocal Vision

Chapter 2: Getting the Organisational Structure Right

Chapter 3: Creating Time to Maximise CEO Impact

Chapter 4: Energising the Organisation Through Leadership

Chapter 5: Delivering Strategy Through the Top Team

Chapter 6: Managing the Board

Chapter 7: Communicating With All of the Stakeholders All of the Time

Chapter 8: Meeting the Diversity Challenge

Chapter 9: Surviving in the Global Jungle

Chapter 10: Balancing Your Act

Conclusion

Bibliography



About the author

Elizabeth Coffey

Elizabeth Coffey is Partner and UK Team Leader for Mercer Delta Consulting Ltd, an international management consulting firm that works with CEOs and senior executives of major corporations on the design and leadership of enterprise-wide change.

Previously, she spent five years as a Director Partner at The Whitehead Mann Group and a Senior Executive Coach with The Change Partnership, developing a portfolio of senior leaders from FTSE 100, top 250 companies and public sector organisations.



An International speaker, Elizabeth Coffey is frequently invited to address issues such as leadership, gender, ethnicity, and organisational and national cultures on academic and professional platforms. Considered a leading expert on business diversity, she is the co-author of The End of Tolerance (2002) and The Changing Culture of Leadership ' Women Leaders' Voices (1999)



Coffey's expert contributors, colleagues from The Change Partnership, draw on insights they have gained from coaching today's top executives as well as from their own experiences at the highest levels in international business.