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    Above and Beyond: Leading and Managing Organizational Change
    Above and Beyond: Leading and Managing Organizational Change
    Above and Beyond: Leading and Managing Organizational Change
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    Above and Beyond: Leading and Managing Organizational Change

    By Dennis L. Richardson

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    In Above and Beyond, Dennis L. Richardson, an experienced naval officer, shares the true story of how as newly appointed manager of Assault Craft Unit FOURs Fleet Maintenance Activity, he was responsible for the bottom-up reorganization, culminating more than three hundred sailors at the only East Coastbased maintenance organization facilitating thirty-five Landing Craft Air Cushion (LCAC)from 2014 to 2017. In this arduous environment, the organization was crippled by a broken maintenance philosophy, broken repair processes, and the worst maintenance readiness in years.
    Richardson fundamentally changed the way they did things through aggressive initiatives, visionary leadership, and key process changes centered on a comprehensive reform of the maintenance philosophy. He then helped navigate the organization by elevating readiness from 37 percent up to as high as 72 percent through innovation and smart maintenance practicesthe most successful readiness in a decade.
    While guiding the organization through epic changes, Richardson empowered the workforce and created a culture of continuous process improvement, excelling at routine day-to-day maintenance completion to complex depot-level repairs on time with zero production delays. In 2016, they executed 769,000 production hours and saved over $23.2 million in contractor cost avoidance for depot maintenance requirements.
    The leadership and management efforts of Richardsons team were validated by winning the US Navys nomination for the prestigious Secretary of Defense Maintenance Award; two consecutive years (2015 & 2016). The accomplishments achieved were earmarked as the best maintenance practices of any platform in the navy to sustain the highest level of materiel and combat craft readiness to meet operational commander tasking, which led them above and beyond.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherAuthorHouse
    Release dateMay 5, 2017
    ISBN9781524690083
    Above and Beyond: Leading and Managing Organizational Change
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    Dennis L. Richardson

    Dennis L. Richardson is a highly skilled Navy technical manager with over twenty years of naval engineering experience. He has served onboard the USS Rodney M. Davis (FFG 60), USS Rentz (FFG 46), USS Curtis Wilbur (DDG 54), USS John S. McCain (DDG 56), USS Fitzgerald (DDG 62), USS Ponce (LPD 15), USS San Antonio (LPD 17) and USS COMSTOCK (LSD 45) in capacity of Leading Chief Petty Officer, Engineer Officer (or Chief Engineer), Main Propulsion Assistant, Damage Control Assistant, and ashore as Repair Officer and Deperming/Degaussing Officer at Naval Station (NS) Norfolk, the world’s largest naval base. As Assault Craft Unit FOUR’s (ACU 4) Maintenance Officer, he authored and directed the epic reorganization of the command’s maintenance philosophy and management of a Fleet Maintenance Activity (FMA) and Service Life Extension Program (SLEP) consisting of 35 Landing Craft, Air Cushion (LCAC) totaling $1.9 billion in assets. Richardson is a recognized Navy engineering expert who is sought after to solve difficult and complex problems. He is a qualified Engineering Officer of the Watch (EOOW) on gas turbine, diesel and steam engineering plants.

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