Lateral Approach for Creating Success
How Not to Leave Success to Chance Whether You Manage a Small Shop or a Multibillion-Dollar Corporation
Ho Wing Sit & Ling Bundgaard
You are a hard worker. You have excellent opportunities. You are surrounded by good people. Yet you don't feel successful. Successes that are within grasp still slip away. How can you make success happen - and not by chance? How can you lead more effectively and get results? How can your team become a winning team?
The Lateral Approach introduces a powerful set of management principles that produce results and bring out the best in people. By adding new perspective to conventional wisdom, the Lateral Approach cuts through the complexities of handling common day-to-day management challenges.
This book will teach you:
- The core philosophy of becoming successful
- How going beyond win-win can improve collaboration
- How to set goals, build credibility, and create success
- How to plan for success
- What you must do to achieve flawless execution
Ho-Wing sit has been a successful businessman for nearly four decades. He serves as the chief strategy office of Accela, Inc., the industry leader in producing government software for permits and licensing. One quarter of the US population interacts with Accela software in some form. Ho-Wing, who holds an MBA from MIT, is an entrepreneur and inventor, and the co-author of a series of business parables, Lateral Approach. The Hong Kong emigrant holds four patents, including one for computer evaluation of blueprints. He is currently collaborating with Cisco to expand its government and higher education operations in China. Ho-Wing resides in Moraga, California.
Ling Bundgaard is a global business expert. She had a successful career as executive at Intel Corporation for 31 years, during which she managed the start-up of the first manufacturing plant in Shanghai, China, establishing the first major corporate commitment from Intel inside of China. She also managed several large, cross-cultural projects in other countries, including the Philippines and Denmark. Ling is the co-author of a series of business parables, Lateral Approach. She resides in Phoenix, Arizona.
