Description:
Lead your business to the next level! The Pivot is an essential guide for leaders and teams who are ready to make that happen. Good leaders manage. Great leaders orchestrate a culture that is always ready for change.
Brief description: Lori Michele Leavitt is founder and President of Abrige Corp. Her leadership services are delivered through business and performance coaching, leading peer groups, and consulting for M&A due diligence, and turnarounds. Abrige software, branded as Aligned Momentum, has catalyzed momentum for organizations with thousands of employees. Her remote monitoring company was the first to enable cashless water vending in Africa. She speaks globally, to groups from 10 to 2000 on performance momentum and culture change. Lori has an MBA and certifications in speaking, coaching, facilitation, and financial management. Her favorite role is as Emily's Mom.
Review Quotes:
"In The Pivot, Lori Michele Leavitt introduces a profoundly importantnew construct for getting everyone in your organization movingforward toward your strategic objectives. She calls it AlignedMomentum, and it's how the most successful leaders enable theirorganizations, at all levels, to initiate change and become more nimble, flexible, and adaptable, and speed miles ahead of their competition.The Pivot is full of compelling stories and examples of how successfulorganizations have used Aligned Momentum, as well as practicalapplications that you can put to immediate use. Mastering The Pivot isnot optional. It is absolutely essential in a world where misalignment iscosting businesses their talent, their competitive advantage, and theircustomer's trust."- Jim Kouzes, coauthor, The Leadership Challenge and the Dean'sExecutive Fellow of Leadership, Leavey School of Business, SantaClara University
"Reading The Pivot will remind you what most of the business worldhas forgotten-long term success is almost never based on a bigbudget, headline-worthy strokes of strategic genius, but rather ofsmall, seemingly infinitesimal, but ultimately highly significant, smallsteps. It's the turns we don't take, it turns out, that can take even longestablished businesses down. Lori Michele Leavitt offers up a newand insightful look at a multitude of ways in which the world's mostprogressive business leaders are changing their companies, theirmarkets and their own mindsets. One page, one Pivot, one positiveinsight at a time, Lori's new work lays out a plethora of small, practical, meaningful tips that can take you and your organization to the nextlevel! Take careful notes-the Pivot that might make or break yourbusiness is probably somewhere in its pages."- Ari Weinzweig, co-founder of Zingerman's Community ofBusinesses and author of A Lapsed Anarchist's Approach to thePower of Beliefs in Business.
"Lori Michele Leavitt provides a fresh perspective on a well-worn term: pivot. She introduces the concept of Aligned Momentum and showshow to achieve it in order to execute the type of transformation thatevery business must undertake if it wants to survive today's challengingand ever-changing environment. Read The Pivot to learn from Leavitt'sextensive experience helping companies thrive and grow throughorganizational momentum and culture change."- Denise Lee Yohn, author of What Great Brands Do
"Lori Michele Leavitt's book, The Pivot, presents an effectivemethodology for anyone aspiring to be a powerful leader in thisunprecedented twenty first century global economic reality.As an MBA, management consultant, and executive coach, Lori ("ThePivot Catalyst"), is intimately aware of the rapid and unpredictablechanges, growing complexities - as evidenced by multiple industrydisruptors and accelerating, exponential growth.. not to mention majorpolitical disruptions, demographic dislocations and even major changeswith Earth's climates. In this book you will find that Lori shares herwisdom and actionable methods with great clarity. She has captured theessence of pivoting and its practical applications.. highly recommendedreading!"- Jim Bergquist, president and CEO of Creative Business Futures, Inc. consultant/coach for Seattle's World Famous Pike Place FishMarket