Sprocket - by Stephanie Novak Hau (Paperback)

Book Synopsis

Businesses need agility and optimization to thrive amidst constant unpredictability. Scientist and entrepreneur Stephanie Novak Hau cracked the code to resilient organizational architecture.

For over thirty years Hau studied hundreds of diverse organizations. She engineered the revolutionary Sprocket(R) framework to structurally transform any business for maximum efficiency, accountability, and sustainability.

In Sprocket: The Mechanics of Business Success, Hau provides the step-by-step blueprint to optimize your organizational architecture. Adopt her process to eliminate chronic struggles, quickly adapt to disruptions, continuously frustrate competitors, and guarantee enduring success.

Hau's Sprocket architecture uses scientific principles to identify the true fundamental components needed in a successful and resilient business. In these pages, you'll gain an understanding of the function of each, how they work together, and how to optimize them in your business.

Using Sprocket, you'll learn how to transform your organization for maximum effectiveness, efficiency, and accountability with a laser focus to minimize disruptions. That elusive goal of collaborative problem-solving across functions will be your new reality. You will facilitate change through laser focus, not with a scalpel, empowering collaborative problem-solving across functions. Sprocket gives you the blueprint to optimize your business for enduring excellence. Architect your success today.

From the Back Cover

Strengthen Your Organization by Redefining Your Business Architecture

As a dedicated scientist and successful entrepreneur, Stephanie Novak Hau cracked the code to building an agile, optimized business architecture that drives success.

After studying hundreds of diverse organizations over thirty years, Hau engineered the revolutionary Sprocket(R) framework. This groundbreaking new business model applies scientific principles to structurally transform any organization for maximum efficiency, accountability, and sustainability.

In Sprocket: The Mechanics of Business Success, Hau provides the step-by-step blueprint to architect enduring excellence. Her process will optimize your organizational architecture to:

• Eliminate chronic struggles with accountability and turnover while enhancing organizational culture
  
• Quickly adapt to unpredictable disruptions and changing business conditions
  
• Continuously frustrate lagging competitors
  
• Use the 5D Method and stop struggling to define problems and solutions
  

Adopt Hau's Sprocket architecture now to guarantee future success, outperform the competition in any environment, and achieve organizational excellence through science. Sprocket gives you the exclusive formula to begin your business transformation today.

Review Quotes

"As a longtime business leader, most recently as a CEO, and now as the dean of a business school, I have read many books on leadership; while most have some merit, almost all are also very short on the practical actionable steps that must be taken to be successful. Stephanie Hau has managed to take us beyond vision and passion to execution. Most impressively, she has done this in a way that makes it replicable. At the end of the day, progress is impossible without that."

Mary Ann Scully

Dean, Sellinger School of Business and Management, Loyola University, Maryland; Cofounder and Former CEO, Howard Bank

"There are three key ingredients that enable an organization to not only attract but also retain top talent, including clarity, potential, and impact. Employees want to know what is expected of them and how they can be successful in their role. In addition, they want to know how they can learn and grow with an organization both personally and professionally. Lastly, knowing how their work makes an impact helps keep them naturally engaged in the work. As someone who researches and focuses on organizational management, I can personally attest to the impact the Sprocket framework has had on organizations in growth mode as well as those that are more stable and mature. Sprocket challenges existing mindsets, creates breakthrough moments, and helps organizations establish and/or sustain a competitive advantage."

Kristi Weierbach, PhD

Organizational Management

"Sprocket provides an honest, personalized perspective to evolve your business with built-in buy-in at all levels through transparent communication. Your leadership and team members will engage in the initiative and help you bring about necessary change, allowing your organization to grow and thrive. It's a brilliant and refreshing approach for leaders of all business types and sizes. And as the new generation of workers continues to enter the workforce with unique skills, abilities, and beliefs, Sprocket helps create an inclusive environment ripe for innovation and success."

Teri O'Neal

Associate Vice President, University Communications

"Successful business leaders understand three things about change: it is coming, it will be unsettling, and it will present new opportunities. In Sprocket, Stephanie Hau helps organizations prepare for change by offering a unique and logical approach to strategic planning. Her scientific analysis of the key components of a resilient business design brings renewed meaning to concepts like culture and purpose. Stephanie uses simple equations to demonstrate the interdependence of these design components and shows that failing to adequately cultivate any one of these components will inevitably cause an imbalance in the equation, potentially resulting in an ineffective plan. She also dispels many of the traditional (and tired) strategic planning myths, encouraging us to focus instead on what inspires employees and customers. Sprocket offers an innovative road map to organizations facing contemporary challenges. It is an essential tool for all thoughtful leaders."

Michael Allen

President, Harford Bank

"We applied the Sprocket approach to better serve our students. Sprocket transformed our team from hard working to high achieving. The methodology was clear, and the results were compelling. It will serve as our leadership playbook moving forward."

Stephen DiBiagio, MBA, MEd

President, The John Carroll School