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MASTERING EXCELLENCE TABLE OF CONTENTS

A Leader’s Guide to Aligning Strategy, Culture, Customer Experience

& Measures of Success

Table of Contents

CHAPTER 1—INTRODUCTION

CHAPTER 2—THE ROADMAP

CHAPTER 3—GETTING AMAZING RESULTS

CHAPTER 4—WE SHALL OVERCOME

Leader’s Action 1: Opportunities with High Potential

Leader’s Action 2: The Ready, Reluctant, and Powerful

Leader’s Action 3: Indicators of Highly Visible Results

CHAPTER 5—WHERE ARE WE?

Leader’s Action 4: C3IQ, a Self-Assessment

CHAPTER 6—CHANGE LEVERS AND AMBIGUITY

1.LANGUAGE

Leader’s Action 5: Confusion Regarding the Customer

2.VALUES

Leader’s Action 6: Core Values Ambiguity

3.MEASURES

Leader’s Action 7: Alignment of Values with Measures (KPIs)

4.POWER

5.ASSUMPTIONS AND VITAL LIES

Leader’s Action 8: Crush Vital Lies

6.MODELING

CHAPTER 7—HOW DID WE GET HERE?

CHAPTER 8—8 DIMENSIONS OF EXCELLENCE (8DX)

Leader’s Action 9: Connect Initiatives and Measures with the 8 Dimensions

Leader’s Action 9a: Create Missing Measures

EXECUTIVE SUMMARY: 8 DIMENSIONS

CHAPTER 9—CUSTOMER-DESIRED OUTCOMES

CASE 1: SLEEPY DEFINITION OF SUCCESS

EXECUTIVE SUMMARY: CASE 1

Leader’s Action 10: Capturing Customer-desired Outcomes

CHAPTER 10—REVEAL AND REDUCE MISSION CONFUSION

CASE 2: WHEN LESS IS MORE SUCCESS

CASE 3: A HEALTHY DOSE OF CLARITY

EXECUTIVE SUMMARY: CASES 2 AND 3

Leader’s Action 11: Differentiate Desired and Undesired Outcomes

CHAPTER 11—WHY, OH WHY?

CASE 4: FINANCIAL SERVICES SPIN MEASURES INTO GOLD

Leader’s Action 12: Strategic 5 Whys (with your team)

EXECUTIVE SUMMARY: CHAPTER 11

CHAPTER 12—CONNECTING THE STRATEGIC DOTS

Leader’s Action 13: The Strategy Map, Part 1

EXECUTIVE SUMMARY: BUILDING THE STRATEGY MAP

CHAPTER 13—TWO KEY QUESTIONS

CHAPTER 14—WORK AS PRODUCTS

Leader’s Action 14: Personal Products

CHAPTER 15—EVOLUTION OF PRODUCTS

CHAPTER 16—WHAT’S SERVICE GOT TO DO WITH THIS?

Leader’s Action 15: Constraints on Service Excellence

CHAPTER 17—KNOWLEDGE AGE PRODUCTS

CHAPTER 18—PRIORITIZING PRODUCTS

Leader’s Action 16: Target Product Selection Matrix (TPSM)

Leader’s Action 17: What Is the Target Product?

Leader’s Action 18: Excellence Through Entertainment

CHAPTER 19—STRATEGY MAP: INTEGRATION

Leader’s Action 19: The Strategy Map, Part 2

CHAPTER 20—CUSTOMERS

Leader’s Action 20: Customer Roles and Power

CHAPTER 21—SIGNIFICANCE, INSIGHTS, AND CONNECTIONS

CHAPTER 22—BALDRIGE AND C3: DIAGNOSIS AND TREATMENT PLAN

CHAPTER 23—SIX SIGMA AND C3

CHAPTER 24—COST OF QUALITY AND C3

CHAPTER 25—BALANCED SCORECARD AND C3

CHAPTER 26—ISO 9001 AND C3

CHAPTER 27—PREVIEW: THE VOC METHOD

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APPENDIX 1—LEADER’S ACTIONS

APPENDIX 2—VITAL LIES

APPENDIX 3—SOUTHWEST AIRLINES CORE VALUES

APPENDIX 4—FIVE FIXES FOR AMBIGUITY

APPENDIX 5—LOCATION AND IMPACT OF AMBIGUITY

APPENDIX 6—FIXING SERVICE CONSTRAINTS

Leader’s Action 15a: The Value of Answers

Leader’s Action 15b: Opportunities to Satisfy Customers

APPENDIX 7—C3 PRINCIPLES

APPENDIX 8—C3IQ SELF-ASSESSMENT

APPENDIX 9—GLOSSARY

APPENDIX 10—BOOKMARK: 8DX FRAMEWORK

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

TABLE OF FIGURES

INDEX