1. Overcome Key Organizational Hurdles
Group 6
Justin Shamp
Ryan Moeller
Tate Roueche
Michael Grizzle
Stuart Gaston
Rachel Camunez

2. Four Organizational Hurdles to Strategy Execution
Cognitive Hurdle
An organization wedded to the status quo
Political Hurdle
Opposition from powerful vested interests
Resource Hurdle
Limited Resources
Motivational Hurdle
Unmotivated Staff

3. Tipping Point Leadership
Allows you to overcome these four hurdles fast and at low cost while winning employees’ backing in executing a break from status quo

4. Break Through the Cognitive Hurdle
Make people see and experience harsh reality firsthand
“Seeing is believing”
Ride the “Electric Sewer”
Meet with disgruntled customers

5. Jump the Resource Hurdle
Hot Spots
Activities with low resource input but high potential performance gains
Cold Spots
Activities with high resource input but low performance impact
Horse Trading
Trading your excess resources in one area for another unit’s excess resources to fill remaining resource gaps

6. Jump the Motivational Hurdle
Zoom in on Kingpins
The key influencers in the organization
Place Kingpins in a Fishbowl
Where kingpins’ actions/inactions are made transparent
Atomize to Get the Organization to Change Itself
The framing of the strategic challenge

7. Knock Over the Political Hurdle
Secure a Consigliere
Politically adept but highly respected insider who knows in advance all the land mines, including your Angels and Devils
Leverage Your Angels
Who will naturally align with me?
Silence Your Devils
Who will fight me?

8. Challenging Conventional Wisdom
Theory of organization change rests on transforming the mass. So change efforts are focused on moving the mass, requiring steep resources and long time frames
Tipping Point Leadership
To change the mass, focus on extremes- people, acts, and activities, that exercise a disproportionate influence on performance to achieve a strategic shift fast at low cost

9. Conclusion Four Hurdles How to knock over those hurdles
Conventional Wisdom vs. Tipping Point Leadership